Anne-Laure Le Cunff

TiddlyWiki - The open source non-linear notebook

TiddlyWiki is a free, open source tool for thought to capture, organize, and share complex information. Use it to take notes, keep your to-do list, outline an essay, or plan a novel. Record every thought that crosses your brain, or build a responsive website.

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Mal
Fantastically flexible open-source text management tool with a very welcoming and helpful community. I've helped a medical doctor build a complete set of notes from med school to radiology training. These will be a valuable career-long resource.
Jeremy Ruston
@malgamble that's great to hear, thank you!
Ste Wilson
I was looking for a solution that let me present maths easily on the web, or anywhere really,, when I stumbled on this.. Four years later I have a tweaked customised plugin.-added, cross linked, equation explaining searchable and growing resource for me and my engineering students which I don't think would have been possible in anything else!
Jeremy Ruston
@stewils your site is a great example of TiddlyWiki, well worth checking out -- http://stephenteacher.tiddlyspot...
Ste Wilson
@jeremyruston Thank you :)
Diego Mesa
Tiddlywiki is *by far* the most powerful and customizable "personal brain" tool I have ever come across. You dont have to adapt your way of thinking and writing to TiddlyWiki. You learn enough about it to realize you can completely customize TiddlyWiki to be a reflection of you!
Jeremy Ruston
Thanks @diego898 I love that way of thinking about it
A Girl Called "Cat"
Practical for getting things done. Very good backwards compatibility despite evolving constantly. It is way more than a wiki. Customization of functions is very open & easy. Can be used well by folk not familiar with Javascript. Ideal for developing custom Web page apps.
Jeremy Ruston
@beabonobo thanks!
Mohammad Rahmani
Tiddlywiki as a Tool for Making Presentation You may use Powerpoint, LibreOffice Impress, Google Slides, Latex presentation,... Or more advanced tools like HTML5+JS like reveal.js(https://revealjs.com/#/) or impress.js (https://impress.js.org/#/bored), ... for making presentation. But using these advanced tools are not easy for everyone ... What do you think if with few clicks you can show your notes in Tiddlywiki as presentation in front of audiences. No other knowledge is required if you can take notes in Tiddlywiki (10 minutes to learn wikitext) by adding a tag you can turn it to a slide!! See example Tiddlywiki here for presentation: https://kookma.github.io/Tiddlys... To give a try: 1. Click select for presentation, 2)click the first slide, 3) Click the slideshow button on the slide! Tiddlywiki is extensible. A wealth of plugins is out there!
Flavius
Congrats! How would you say it compare (or not) to Roam? I know that @anthilemoon also wrote a pretty good review of Roam, for example. Thanks, Happy Friday from Africa and please stay safe!
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
@followflavius I made a side-by-side comparison, focusing specifically on how it compares with Roam features. So it doesn't include lots of the features TiddlyWiki has but Roam doesn't. I would say TiddlyWiki has 90% of Roam's features, but if the 10% that are missing are crucial to your workflow, you may need to tinker a bit to implement them.
Flavius
@anthilemoon thanks very much! A key consideration is indeed open vs closed. I'm willing to sacrifice being in Roam's walled garden for the convenience it provides (Edward Snowden will cringe). Apologies for the non-related, I recall you mentioned about substack (which I went for, datajournalism.substack.com) that it keeps the "SEO juice", and I thought that was interesting as we are, hopefully, growing and perhaps publishing on a website at some point. Thank you so much and please stay safe
Julio Peña
If my brain was comprised of three parts I'd dare say Tiddlywiki is my third part. It is my goto tool for most of my note taking during the day. The great thing about this product is it's malleability by means of the plethora of plugins available to it via the plugin library and from the great people in the Tiddlywiki community. There is a learning curve as with most products, but once you get over the learning stage a new world opens up with loads of possibilities. I highly recommend it for anyone looking for a non-linear note-taking tool.
Jeremy Ruston
Thanks @jtech108 that's beautifully expressed!
twMat
For someone who is not a coder, but still with technical abilities, this is a super powerful tool to create applications. I use several TiddlyWikis - one for house holdmatters (shopping lists, product reference info, etc), one for notes and ideas including my book directory, and a few more. TiddlyWiki has been compared to Evernote and OneNote but it is just so much more flexible.
A Girl Called "Cat"
Its a Web page with intelligence. For over a decade TW has been evolving. It can be used straight out of the box (https://tiddlywiki.com) to start. Immensely flexible using its own macro language to expand function in any way you want. Very good support (via https://groups.google.com/forum/...). It is more than a wiki. It's more like a self-contained development environment.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
@beabonobo I love this review. TiddlyWiki does feel like a self-contained development environment.
William Love
@jeremyruston It is a product I have unreservedly recommended for years. No I'm not just saying that. I'm a huge fan of yours simply because of tiddlywiki and I am very very glad to see that you are getting recognition. Your software works. It is clear, actually useful, and is something I can nerd out about and actually use features in. THANK YOU. Moreover thank you to the community that has helped it grow. I a very very busy humble attorney sometimes look at the icon and smile that there are decent developers out there who do not dumb down a program, yet make it easy to use. It is a fine balance that most people give up on to their own detriment. I may have used it dozens of times as an example, but I can neither confirm nor deny this.
Jeremy Ruston
Gosh @craftyattorney thank you! Much appreciated!