Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024)

Re:Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) by rcarmo on Friday June 06, 2025 @02:49AM (#44198379)

This is a great example of a killer app hobbled by the browser’s inability to save local data (to a file, not local storage) without horrid workarounds. I stopped using it because I couldn’t use any of the helpers and eventually lost data.

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Re:Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) by smartmic on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:16AM (#44198518)

I had the same experience. In my humble opinion, it's just not the right tool for the task. I remember setting up my own self-hosted PouchDB to sync my notes with different clients. The tool was called NoteSelf¹. It was such a fragile setup and only worked suboptimally. Currently, I use Emacs Howm². Having notes in plain text files is the most robust and simple setup. I am a big fan of SQLite, but none of my attempts to use it for note storage were as good as a file-based solution.

¹ https://noteself.org/

² https://kaorahi.github.io/howm/

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Re:Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) by cmitsakis on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:24AM (#44198571)

install rclone and run `rclone serve webdav .` to start a WebDAV server on the directory that contains your tiddlywiki file. easy and never had issues with saving that way.

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Re:Twenty Years of TiddlyWiki (2024) by rcarmo on Friday June 06, 2025 @03:26AM (#44198579)

At the time and environment I was working in, that was impossible.

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