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Anne-Laure Le Cunff

TiddlyWiki - The open source non-linear notebook

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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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Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
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.
Samuel Beek
VEED
@jeremyruston Hi Jeremy, this quote really inspired me: "Much effort in contemporary user interface design is directed at persuading unwilling, busy people to complete simple transactions, ruthlessly reducing the cognitive load of the task to fit the capacity of the lowest common denominator user." is it your conviction that that is a mistake in software design? or do you think this principle only applies to a certain type of tools?
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
@samuelbeek a lot of software necessarily fits that description (most of Google's web development advice for example is predicated on this idea that every site has to be super fast otherwise buyers will go elsewhere, as if everyone was developing ecommerce sites). The mistake is to think that all software has to be like that. I was responding to a reaction I sometimes get about TiddlyWiki: that it is self-evidently too complicated, that it demands that users have a sophisticated conceptual model of whats going on. Which is true to a certain extent, but I'm trying to meet the needs of people who recognise that they face complex, intertwingled problems, and who are prepared to to invest intellectual effort in learning the tool. So I trust my users to be smart, thoughtful and busy.
Samuel Beek
VEED
@jeremyruston Thanks, this makes a lot of sense to me. And it seems like for software like yours, this is the right decision. Hope to see this in more products, I feel like the mantra to make everything as easy as possible might limit us in some ways.
Abraham Samma
@samuelbeek @jeremyruston Any particularly useful or indispensable piece of software is usually non-trivial ;-)
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Ness Labs
Hunter
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!
Stowe Boyd
@anthilemoon None of the images in your tutorial are rendering for me.
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Ness Labs
Hunter
@stowe_boyd Ha it's the lazy loading on my page that does that sometimes apparently. Have you tried on desktop? Will fix this, thank you!
Max Katz
@anthilemoon Love TiddlyWiki -- been a fan for over a decade and used it for my personal note-taking for several years. I see it's gotten a lot more features over the years, but also appears "busier". Is there a quick-start guide?
S. Sharma
@anthilemoon Hi Anne, First of all, congratulation on the release. I am documenting journey of individuals who are innovating, inventing, and creating things in general, through out the world. The proposal is to do a short interview, capture it in video, and let it out to the world, so that others can get inspiration. And, at the same time you and your team will get acknowledgement for the hustle. I would like to request you to please let me know when you are available so that we can discuss this in more detail at tellmeaboutit510{at}gmail.com . Thanks, and good luck! Subodh
Григор Стефанов
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...
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
@gr6a Ha! Indeed, the customisation rabbit-hole is awfully tempting, especially when you see successful TiddlyWiki sites like https://philosopher.life
Elise Springer
@gr6a Yes, this is a feature as much as a bug! Sometimes a break from the content of my work -- to play with how to bring relations to the surface or how to visualize elements just the way I want -- allows me just enough wiggle room to "procrastinate" while still feeling productive... and I often thank myself for it later!
Tiddly Tweeter
@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.
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @tiddlytweeter I showed the first version of TiddlyWiki on 20th September 2004 -- there's a nice contemporary blog post here http://paulm.com/inchoate/2004/0...
Abraham Samma
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"!
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @absamma you're a great evangelist for TiddlyWiki
Abraham Samma
@jeremyruston Thank you! 😊
Nikolay Bilev
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.
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @bilevn, being open source was kind of an accident at the beginning but has been great for TiddlyWiki
Mohammad Rahmani
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)
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @mohammad_rahmani good quotes from Eric
Gary Hollingsbee
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.
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @gary_hollingsbee much appreciated. I also rely on Quine on my iPad/iPhone, greap app.
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
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...
Geert Jan Sloos
Lo-Fi Radio
Great product! @jeremyruston very clean design
Jeremy Ruston
tiddlywiki
Maker
Thanks @payrequest, I'm in awe of people who really can design beautiful sites. For TW5 I just wanted the main site to be a clean frame for the content, and mercilessly copied some of the designs I liked
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