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TiddlyWiki: An Open Source Alternative to Notion or Obsidian (thenewstack.io)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by Emperor@feddit.uk to c/foss@beehaw.org

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components.

However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases.

So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

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[–] christophski@feddit.uk 7 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I've used it several times since it was launched and it's always the saving that is a bit awkward. It is a great tool though. I'm using obsidian now purely for it's simplicity

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I never even managed to make it work, I remember it needed some kind of plugin for saving. That sucks pretty bad, and if I'm gonna host I'd use something else entirely. Maybe it works better now?

[–] chaos@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If you run the Node.js version, that's all handled for you. It's only if you want to do the party trick of keeping it all in a single HTML file that you need to worry about a plugin or anything like that. And even then, the server version exports to a standalone HTML file with one or two clicks.

Edit to add: it's the only substantial Node package I've ever seen with zero dependencies. Very lightweight and simple to run.

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago

I'm just now downloading the other standalone thing. But I have to say the state of the thing is discouraging, I'm wondering why even try if it really doesn't function at all

[–] TemporalSoup@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I had a play with it a little while ago, and it has a guide for using and saving it with OneDrive (you just rename the file IIRC)

[–] MayonnaiseArch@beehaw.org 1 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I just tried again, none of the options works. Like nothing works at all except the standalone thing that's like 200megs

edit: ok, the timimi thing works really well, I missed it somehow. This way the thing makes sense, no need for a huge ass app, just like 3 megs of addon and it works weeee