TiddlyWiki

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TiddlyWiki is a wiki-modeled client-side application written by Jeremy Ruston that is well suited for use as a personal notebook. It is a self-contained HTML file that includes CSS and JavaScript code. When it is downloaded to a user's PC, TiddlyWiki has the unusual ability, when brought up in some browsers, of being able to overwrite itself on the user's disk at the user's request. So following TiddlyWiki conventions, users can make a new entry, called a Tiddler, in their local copy of the TiddlyWiki file and save it for future reference by saving the TiddlyWiki file. Existing Tiddlers can also be modified or deleted in the same way.

TiddlyWiki is published by Osmosoft under a BSD open source license, which makes it freely available. Jeremy Ruston describes it as experimental, and in that spirit many people have used the original HTML file to create TiddlyWiki Adaptations. These fall under two general categories; those that retain the client-side write only feature, and those that add server-side file writing to make TiddlyWiki more like a true wiki. Links to both these kinds of Adaptations are put in the original TiddlyWiki file as they become known. TiddlyWiki Adaptations typically add features that were not originally envisioned by Ruston, and some of these features have been included in newer versions of TiddlyWiki.

A feature that sets TiddlyWiki apart from a standard wiki implementation is its content presentation. Jeremy Ruston had this to say about it:

A TiddlyWiki is like a blog because it's divided up into neat little chunks (tiddlers), but it encourages you to read it by hyperlinking rather than sequentially: if you like, a non-linear blog analogue that binds the individual microcontent items into a cohesive whole. I think that TiddlyWiki represents a novel medium for writing, and will promote its own distinctive WritingStyle.

Although a TiddlyWiki is ideal for keeping notes, it can also be used as the foundation for a complete Web site. Its single file structure makes it easy to manage while providing an elegant Web experience.

External links

The TiddlyWiki distribution by Jeremy Ruston:

• The original (currently (June 2006) at version 2.0.11): [TiddlyWiki]

Distributions of the original TiddlyWiki that have plugins built in to customize TiddlyWiki for a particular task:

• [MonkeyGTD] - uses [MPTW] and other plugins for automatic GTD list generation and "dashboard" type project summaries
• [d3 ("d cubed")] - includes plugins for automatic GTD list generation
• [GTD TiddlyWiki Plus] - includes Clint Checketts' GTD style applied
• [d3-fusion] - combines d3 with the GTD style
• [MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki (MPTW)] - includes plugins for TagglyWiki style tagging and a style switcher
• [TiddlyTools] - many essential plugins created by Eric Shulman including ImportTiddlers, NestedSliders, SinglePageMode
• [abegoExtensions] - many essential plugins created by Udo Borkowski including ForEachTiddler, YourSearchPlugin
• [BidiXTW] - home of UploadPlugin which allows you to save to a remote server with a simple php script.

Adaptations of TiddlyWiki that have actually changed the source code in order to create a new product entirely:

• [ChristianHauck's]
• [GTD TiddlyWiki] - popular adaptation; implements Getting Things Done in TiddlyWiki
• [HailiWiki] - TiddlyWiki clone
• [HenrikAastedSorensen] - PHP server-side adaptation
• [IeWiki] - more IE compatible adaptation
• [LesserWiki] - adaptation that uses Ajax to speed things up
• [MagyarTiddlyWiki] - adaptation in Hungarian
• [PhpTiddlyWiki] - server-side adaptation using PHP and MySQL
• [TiddlyMath] allow mathematical expression and plotting.
• [ASciencePad] - ASciencePad, by the Peter Jipsen (also the author of TiddlyMath) is unique amongst TiddlyWikis(June 2006) in supporting WYSIWYG editing. (It uses the HTMLArea tool.) According to the author's homepage, TiddlyMath is ASciencePad with the WYSIWYG support stripped out.
• [QwikiWeb] - website-oriented adaptation
• [TagglyWiki] - improved tagging features
• [TiddlyWikiCSS]
• [TiddlyWikiRemote] - server-side adaptation
• [TidliPo] - adaptation in French
• [TonyLownds's]
• [ZiddlyWiki] - server-side adaptation with Zope backend.
• [ccTiddly] server-side adaption - very nice

The TiddlyWiki community of developers is prodigious, so keeping these lists up to date may be quite difficult.

TiddlyWiki Hosting Sites:

• [tiddlyspot.com] - Free TiddlyWiki Hosting service, with backend sync capability. As of June 2006, supports "Standard" and "MonkeyPirate". Based on UploadPlugin.

Sites providing additional information about TiddlyWiki:

• [TiddlyForge] TiddlyWiki plugin and docs repository
• [TiddlyWiki Tips] TiddlyWiki Tips Resource
• [TiddlyWiki Tips] Denis Méline's original Tips site for TiddlyWiki
• [TiddlyWikiHandbuch] a "manual" in German language

Online communities:

• [Google Group: TiddlyWiki] General discussions
• [Google Group: TiddlyWiki Development] Developer's discussions
• [Google Group: GTD TiddlyWiki] Applying TiddlyWiki for GTD

 

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