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I recommend people to peruse GrokTiddlyWiki[0] which guides you through setting up TiddlyWiki as a personal knowledgebase similar to Obsidian and also implement
by aquariusDue 1y ago
I recommend people to peruse GrokTiddlyWiki[0] which guides you through setting up TiddlyWiki as a personal knowledgebase similar to Obsidian and also implementing a spaced repetition system, it really is an exhaustive resource and it's true to its title. The author works at RemNote and is really passionate in general I'd say. He has his own digital garden called Mosaic Muse[2] built upon TiddlyWiki.
At the same time there is TiddlyPWA[1] which helps with syncing and some other stuff out of the box.
Now a theme you might be noticing is that there are distributions of TiddlyWiki and various ways to install and use it, it's similar to Emacs and Neovim in this regard.
That being said I was into it for a while and while it's great and even more flexible than most PKM software it takes a certain kind of tolerance for "jank" (as in eurogame jank) due to TiddlyWiki being a living system much more similar to Emacs, in that regard Obsidian and ZimWiki are practically related compared to TiddlyWiki. Because of this the sky and the time you're willing to put in are the limits for TiddlyWiki, it's one of the things where it can be both a canvas for your creativity and your second brain (or flavor of the month term for off-loading some cognitive burden to a system).
Also the community[3] is really helpful over on their forums, I encourage people to reach out if they need help because a bare TiddlyWiki is pretty confusing.
Oh and don't be worried about system lock-in or something like that, if you give it a try like I did it's easy to migrate[4] your notes/tiddlers afterwards.
To be clear, I went through a phase of trying different systems and org-mode for Emacs remains good enough albeit with its own troubles. Between them I prefer the mobile experience of TiddlyWiki but Emacs and respectively org-mode leads to easier and faster capture (of thoughts, bookmarks, todos).
[0] https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/ https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/
[1] https://tiddly.packett.cool/ https://tiddly.packett.cool/
[2] https://mosmu.se/ https://mosmu.se/
[3] https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/ https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/
[4] https://tiddlywiki.com/static/How%2520to%2520export%2520tiddlers.html https://tiddlywiki.com/static/How%2520to%2520export%2520tidd...
- qznc 1y agoInteresting, I didn't know Grok. Might have been useful when I came up with my own TiddlyWiki mix: https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/tiddlywiki_notes.html https://beza1e1.tuxen.de/tiddlywiki_notes.html
- aquariusDue 1y agoSome really great tips in there, especially the ones about titling notes and not worrying about keeping everything perfect. I didn't know about Tiddloid, on Android I used the PWA version I mentioned earlier. Also greek letters instead of numbers is pretty cool, I might start doing that too.
- spankibalt 1y agoSad that the Missing Manual-style book which was discussed back in the TW Classic days, or a nice cookbook, never came to pass. Good that's finally been taken care of with GrokTW. Great, reliable, and extremely flexible tool, especially in non-permissive environments, either as a single file-only datadump, or decked-out to manage a flat-file KB via the "all-tiddlers-as-single-text-files" approach (either through TiddlyDesktop or one's own solution).