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Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by nextos »

danShumway wrote: post #46
TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

How do you handle images/screenshots/handwritten notes? I am also using Org-Mode and Dropbox for the majority of my notes. I really like it. In particular, Orgzly for Android works great with this system, so check it out if you want mobile notes as well. The problem is that I also like to take paper notes, and take videos/pictures of stuff, and scan documents, and download webpages. Org-mode kinda stinks for embeddin…

You can make some tweaks to org to get images to display nicely: https://lepisma.github.io/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by TomDavey »

iBelieve wrote: post #44
TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

I'm curious, are you (or anyone else using Org Mode) using a single org file for your entire personal wiki, or one file per major topic? In the past, I've used Markdown files with one file per language/topic for my personal developer wiki, but am looking at moving it to Org Mode now. One file for everything (developer knowledge + other subjects) seems nice, but it seems like trying to manage and navigate around a sin…

A single Org file holds my wiki. Yes, it's big, but Org's features make it easily manageable.

Org has fine hyperlinking, and equally fine searching -- including searches on headline tags and properties -- using regexps if desired. Underneath is the logical outline structure -- just like a website -- and the hierarchical inheritance of tags and properties.

Plus -- here's where Org is superior to a Web-based wiki IMO -- it's so easily refactored. When I started I had only a few top-level entries. Over time, I have accumulated hundreds of headlines and their accompanying body text. Multi-level structure emerged naturally, and continues to evolve.

Here are my top-level categories today:

1. Arts and Entertainment 2. Diet and Health 3. Household 4. Restaurant and Bars 5. Petronius.me (my household LAN) 6. Subscriptions 7. People and Me 8. Travel 9. Commonplace Book (quotes, links, and reading I've saved)

Org makes it easy to move things around and re-organize as needed: just cut a subtree and paste it to a new location in the hierarchy.

Org's linking make cross-references a cinch. Who was that person I met on this trip? Oh, here's a link to their personal entry in "People and Me". And that entry will link back to the trip in "Travel."

A headline's unique ID property guarantees that a link will never break, no matter how frequently or drastically you move things around.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by danShumway »

nextos wrote: post #51
danShumway wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

How do you handle images/screenshots/handwritten notes? I am also using Org-Mode and Dropbox for the majority of my notes. I really like it. In particular, Orgzly for Android works great with this system, so check it out if you want mobile notes as well. The problem is that I also like to take paper notes, and take videos/pictures of stuff, and scan documents, and download webpages. Org-mode kinda stinks for embeddin…

You can make some tweaks to org to get images to display nicely: https://lepisma.github.io/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/

A) That is beautiful, thank you for sharing

B) Does it actually address the image problem? The config appears to be using the built in inline-images, which don't support responsive widths.

Even getting rid of responsive widths, simply embedding the image into the buffer isn't really good enough for handwritten notes -- you need at least the ability to crop/zoom.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by nextos »

danShumway wrote: post #53
nextos wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can make some tweaks to org to get images to display nicely: https://lepisma.github.io/2017/10/28/ricing-org-mode/

A) That is beautiful, thank you for sharing B) Does it actually address the image problem? The config appears to be using the built in inline-images, which don't support responsive widths. Even getting rid of responsive widths, simply embedding the image into the buffer isn't really good enough for handwritten notes -- you need at least the ability to crop/zoom.

I'm not sure whether it solves the problem you mention. But it might be a good starting point. If you can roll your own solution, I'd be very interested in hearing about it, and probably most org users! I keep my scanned notes in separate files, though.

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by nanomonkey »

iBelieve wrote: post #44
TomDavey wrote: post #30

A hyperlinked knowledge-management system for personal use, on all my computers, is essential. To achieve it, I use Emacs and Org-Mode and Dropbox. An additional benefit of using Emacs: the personal wiki can be integrated with my task-management system, which Org-Mode handles as well. Plus I can draft and edit at warp speed, having customized the native Emacs keybindings to suit me better. Were I going to publish my…

I'm curious, are you (or anyone else using Org Mode) using a single org file for your entire personal wiki, or one file per major topic? In the past, I've used Markdown files with one file per language/topic for my personal developer wiki, but am looking at moving it to Org Mode now. One file for everything (developer knowledge + other subjects) seems nice, but it seems like trying to manage and navigate around a sin…

I use multiple files, one per topic all in one folder. There is a file called main.org that contains the following embedded code, which creates an index of all of my org files

  * Org-files
  #+BEGIN_SRC sh
      for file in $(ls *.org)
      do 
      echo "[[~/org/$file][$file]]"
      done
  #+END_SRC

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by tommoor »

pixelmonkey wrote: post #22

I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

For team use take a look at the open source wiki we've been working on, simple, BSD licensed, well designed and works with Markdown: http://getoutline.com

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by a012 »

tommoor wrote: post #56
pixelmonkey wrote: post #22

I personally think Tiddlywiki is a fascinating project and I even used it professionally for a few years. But, these days, I think you likely do better with either a Dropbox directory full of Markdown files or installing the free tool Simplenote everywhere (mobile/desktop) and using its support for notes/Markdown. It's true that if you go with these simple schemes, you lose wiki-style linking. But, I've found that YA…

For team use take a look at the open source wiki we've been working on, simple, BSD licensed, well designed and works with Markdown: http://getoutline.com

It looks good but I saw they require Slack developer which is a no for me

> Outline requires the following dependencies:

> Postgres >=9.5 > Redis > Slack developer application

Re: Tiddlywiki – A non-linear personal web notebook

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Post by cbau »

Twisol wrote: post #43
comboy wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> I have some 1500+ articles multiple of which are 50+ pages Holy shit. Make it public. The idea is fantastic. I would love to have something like wikipedia but people have separate pages on topic. Or, in other words, if you want to find everything written by given person, why not that easy it is doable - it was more doable back when blogs were more popular. But if you want to find everything on given topic written b…

'cbau, if you do make it public, I would humbly suggest making it very difficult for people to send you feedback. It would be awful if something as useful to you as this became something you "have" to maintain and keep up-to-date for the sake of anyone else reading it. Make it clear to any readers that this is strictly a resource for yourself that just happens to be publically browsable.

Very good point, integrating that into my notes now :) I know that burden too well.
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