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Would you mind sharing what caused you to abandon TiddlyWiki? I like the look of Notion and Roam, but I don’t like SaaS. I’m a few weeks into customising a Tidd

by sjy 6y ago

Would you mind sharing what caused you to abandon TiddlyWiki? I like the look of Notion and Roam, but I don’t like SaaS. I’m a few weeks into customising a TiddlyWiki instance and I am becoming quite committed to it. It seems to have the right balance of out-of-the-box functionality and customisability for me. But I am a little apprehensive about finding that it gets slow after a few years of use, or something like that.

stanislavb 6y ago
Yeah, Roam looks exactly what I'd love to have, and I would pay a licence fee; however, I don't want my knowledge hosted somewhere else apart from my computer a my backup.
elbear 6y ago
I'm using Tiddlywiki as well, but I haven't customized it much yet. Regarding your fear of it becoming slow, the good part is that you can manipulate the tiddlers easily, so you could import them in another system, if you need to migrate.
fsiefken 6y ago
Another TiddlyWiki fan here, I used to use DevonThink - which is pretty awesome, but less portable - it only runs on MacOS and has a barebones web frontend. I could carry or host my OSX VM anywhere, and use VNC or such, but TiddlyWiki is much more portable as it is a self-contained html+js file running in the browser. I loose functionality, but there's search, tagging, linking and listing and a ton of plugins. It's good enough. I used to think of the file system text file route as well, and there is this vimwiki, but as I'm used to browsing and looking up information in the browser TiddlyWiki is more convenient, and I can use SVG, mindmaps and diagrams. Emacs could be used to with the convenience of org-mode. There is also org-brain... all this is nice but is a bit more work and a bit less portable. Regarding the potential slowing and bloating of TiddlyWiki, there is this filesystem plugin to link to local external images and documents. I use as much plain text, icons and svg diagrams as possible. I also segment several tiddlywiki's - perhaps at most 7. Now I use: * 'VR oriented development, which is very broad and can include WebXR, UE4, Quill, C++, C#, hardware, game development, cyborg antropology, psychology * Spirituality (meditation, christian theology, hindu tantra and buddhist philosophy) and health * Family and friends, non-violent communication * Tasks, notetaking, journaling, habits - including shadow work journaling (semi-spiritual/psychological practice). Work or private related, there is no seperation. Ideally TiddlyWiki could be mounted in a FUSE-like filesystem manner, more intuitive search operators or had built-in compression to make it even more speedy but it's good enough, just like my tweaked dvorak. Perfect doesn't exist. I don't complain, I love it! I can use it on my phone and on my Quest as well. If one day my browser grinds to a halt due to a 20 Mbyte TiddliWiki I'll think of a solution then. I think at most I'm at 16 tiddlers a day on average.

by sjy 6y ago

stanislavb 6y ago

Yeah, Roam looks exactly what I'd love to have, and I would pay a licence fee; however, I don't want my knowledge hosted somewhere else apart from my computer a my backup.

elbear 6y ago

I'm using Tiddlywiki as well, but I haven't customized it much yet. Regarding your fear of it becoming slow, the good part is that you can manipulate the tiddlers easily, so you could import them in another system, if you need to migrate.

fsiefken 6y ago

Another TiddlyWiki fan here, I used to use DevonThink - which is pretty awesome, but less portable - it only runs on MacOS and has a barebones web frontend. I could carry or host my OSX VM anywhere, and use VNC or such, but TiddlyWiki is much more portable as it is a self-contained html+js file running in the browser. I loose functionality, but there's search, tagging, linking and listing and a ton of plugins. It's good enough. I used to think of the file system text file route as well, and there is this vimwiki, but as I'm used to browsing and looking up information in the browser TiddlyWiki is more convenient, and I can use SVG, mindmaps and diagrams. Emacs could be used to with the convenience of org-mode. There is also org-brain... all this is nice but is a bit more work and a bit less portable. Regarding the potential slowing and bloating of TiddlyWiki, there is this filesystem plugin to link to local external images and documents. I use as much plain text, icons and svg diagrams as possible. I also segment several tiddlywiki's - perhaps at most 7. Now I use: * 'VR oriented development, which is very broad and can include WebXR, UE4, Quill, C++, C#, hardware, game development, cyborg antropology, psychology * Spirituality (meditation, christian theology, hindu tantra and buddhist philosophy) and health * Family and friends, non-violent communication * Tasks, notetaking, journaling, habits - including shadow work journaling (semi-spiritual/psychological practice). Work or private related, there is no seperation. Ideally TiddlyWiki could be mounted in a FUSE-like filesystem manner, more intuitive search operators or had built-in compression to make it even more speedy but it's good enough, just like my tweaked dvorak. Perfect doesn't exist. I don't complain, I love it! I can use it on my phone and on my Quest as well. If one day my browser grinds to a halt due to a 20 Mbyte TiddliWiki I'll think of a solution then. I think at most I'm at 16 tiddlers a day on average.