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Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by polote »

kzrdude wrote: post #9

I'm still looking for a good note taking solution for work. I prefer something with a degree of spatial orientation, i.e persistent physical location/hierarchy. With the right organization it seems like tiddlywiki can do that.

Shared note taking tools absolutely need hierarchy. You can't expect your colleagues to know the way your brain sort things. In my opinion tools like roam research will never work for organizations. Especially for that reason.

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by zwaps »

meow112012 wrote: post #2

I couldn't go back (with Back button) once I visited the page https://rr-tw5.github.io/#DAILY%20NOTES . Honestly I really hate this style that many sites are using :(

Same here. Additionally, it doesn’t work on mobile as the menu blocks the content.

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by lf-non »

seif_madc wrote: post #8

There is also a good alternative called TiddlyRoam, that icludes graph view of your connected notes.

Do people find this graph view useful ? I have never seen the practical usefulness of this. I usually just click through the links or use search to navigate to what I need.

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by diimdeep »

tiddlywiki to me is scary concept compared to plaintext, it always frightens me that data becomes corrupted or not recoverable from from that html/js blob.

But it is also very cool concept, it could be much powerful than it is, think smalltalk like VM inside HTML file.

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by svat »

meow112012 wrote: post #2

I couldn't go back (with Back button) once I visited the page https://rr-tw5.github.io/#DAILY%20NOTES . Honestly I really hate this style that many sites are using :(

That's the initial page that clicking on the submitted link redirects to. The back button seems to work in a standard way for navigation with the webpage itself (as it's just a single html file; it's Tiddlywiki after all); it seems that the back button is broken only across the initial navigation from an external site to this webpage. That's ok with me personally (just have to long press/long click the back button on Chrome/Firefox, and on Safari even the initial navigation works fine), given everything else that this page is doing. (Besides, in practice if you were to use this you would be opening the downloaded index.html file in a separate tab/window anyway, not navigating to it from other webpages.)

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by fsiefken »

diimdeep wrote: post #15

tiddlywiki to me is scary concept compared to plaintext, it always frightens me that data becomes corrupted or not recoverable from from that html/js blob. But it is also very cool concept, it could be much powerful than it is, think smalltalk like VM inside HTML file.

you can use the node based tiddlywiki and it saves the tiddlers in seperate text files. with the markdown plugin it saves to markdown. With obsidian you can use the markdown as well, or with kiln you can export to gemini or the small web

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by fsiefken »

rzzzt wrote: post #4
e3bc54b2 wrote: post #3

Heads up: The page appears editable. Not sure if that was the intention, but might want to lock public write access.

It's supposed to be editable, but not in the way you expect - TiddlyWikis are single-file HTMLs that can live on your desktop and are usually used for note taking. When you are finished with your edit, you can save a copy of the entire page using "File > Save Page As": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki ...unless this GH-userpage hosted version is special in this regard.

With the node based tiddlywiki it saves the tiddlers as seperate text files

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by fouc »

meow112012 wrote: post #2

I couldn't go back (with Back button) once I visited the page https://rr-tw5.github.io/#DAILY%20NOTES . Honestly I really hate this style that many sites are using :(

Hmm, seems to work for me here. And that's after I clicked around a bit too. Then multiple back button clicks returns me back to here. (Safari)

Re: Tiddlywiki with Roam Research like functionality

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Post by grlass »

lf-non wrote: post #14
seif_madc wrote: post #8

There is also a good alternative called TiddlyRoam, that icludes graph view of your connected notes.

Do people find this graph view useful ? I have never seen the practical usefulness of this. I usually just click through the links or use search to navigate to what I need.

I've been using org-roam for my research for a couple of months now, which has a lot of overlap.

The org-roam-server visualisation are really useful for me, since it makes it easier to see what areas have sparsity in them and should be expanded upon. Plus it gives me something more tangible to look at to understand how my research is expanding, there's a bigger sense of "building something". https://github.com/org-roam/org-roam-server

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