cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components.

However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases.

So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

  • @paddirnEnglish
    2•3 months ago

    I’ve actually been using TiddlyWiki for years as a sort of JobWiki. I went with it because it doesn’t require any special software, just a web browser, it’s stored locally, and it’s relatively easy to use. It hangs out on our network so it’s easily accessible by my workmates or me, it works fairly well and I’ve probably not even scratched the surface of what it can do. I’d like to use Obsidian instead, BUT I think that’s a bridge too far for some people that aren’t tech saavy.