Thanks for the wonderful write-up Anne-Laure! I'm the original creator of TiddlyWiki. Let me know if you have any questions or thoughts.

Hey everyone! First time in a while I hunt a product—couldn't help but share TiddlyWiki! It's a fantastic non-linear note-taking tool. It's free, open source, self-hosted, and extremely modular ✨ It's been around for 15 years (which is like 75 in tech years), and the latest major version was released yesterday. TiddlyWiki uses metaprogramming. It means your notes themselves can change the behavior of TiddlyWiki. There's an amazing community creating such dynamic notes and plugins you can just drag to your own notebook to install. I installed a few and managed to implement bi-directional linking, transclusion, and even a knowledge graph based on my notes. You can also use it as a static website generator! Honestly, the sky is the limit. I wrote a short tutorial to get you started if you want to check it out. This short note also explains the philosophy of the product. Have fun!

I have this one problem with TiddlyWiki: I'm constantly tempted to tweak (with) it. It's enjoyable to the point of becoming addictive... A rabbit hole but in the best of senses! There is a learning curve, of course, but then... all you need to get started is (0) a browser; (1) an empty copy of this single-file marvel; and learning how to (2) save and (3) backup your changes. Take a look, you will be amazed! Start with 1+2+3 here: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingS...

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.

@jeremyruston created TiddlyWiki a long time ago. Its evolved into a diverse project. It is now a communal work of great power. The central idea is to use Javascript to deliver in ONE Web page anything you want a page to do. TW basic you can use immediately to make notes (https://tiddlywiki.com/) and find them. TW has enormous flex to build/tweak bespoke apps without needing understand Javascript as it has a high level macro language. ALL of that ability is in one Web page.

It's an excellent piece of software. It opens up many possibilities in terms of organizing not just thoughts and ideas, but raw data using special notes called data tiddlers, as well as code in the form of JS as well as markup and stylesheets. Everything is customizable and can be combined in different, interesting ways. It's really engrossing. I haven't been able to stop using it. Not bad for something that was dismissed by some as merely a "toy"!

Great product! @jeremyruston very clean design

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.

Great product! The list of supported platforms is really extensive. The app is useful to organise notes, plans or basically anything. It is especially cool to know that such high quality product is open source.

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.

Tiddlywiki is like a dream! You can do many many things with it! It is an ACTIVE TOOL not a passive one as you see in most other rival tools. You can enjoy Tiddlywiki when you learn its wikitext scripting. It is simple and lets you to do amazing job! You don't like the way Tiddlywiki process you notes, data, ... No problem, you can customize it! It is free world! May be the below words describe Tiddlywiki in better way From Eric Shulman: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/... Many years ago I coined this phrase to explain TW: "Own it like a document, Use it like a website" Sometime I also use the following (just because I like alliteration): "Powerful Portable Programmable Platform for People" and, to promote my consulting services, I have this: "Intuitive Interfaces for Intelligent Interactions" {registered trademark)

Yes, it's excellent. I've been using TiddlyWiki for over a year now and (gradually) moving all my notes from Evernote, OneNote and other note-taking/storage apps I've used. I mainly use it through an app called Quine in iOS and TiddlyDesktop on Mac. There's something about Tiddlywiki that makes it a delight to use. It's also supported by a great Google Group.

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!

I posted a couple of links with a bit of background about the project: an interview for the Changelog podcast https://changelog.com/196/ and a talk I gave with the late Joe Armstrong https://jermolene.com/intertwing...

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.

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!

@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.

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!

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!

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.