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 tansoei discovered 17 months ago - Since its introduction by Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki, has grown in popularity. It has been extended with various plug-ins and adapted to many special purpose personal wikis.
What is the basic difference between a normal wiki like MediaWiki (used in Wikipedia ) and TiddlyWiki?
TiddlyWiki is light... more
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- tansoei rated 17 months agointernet-tools
- Since its introduction by Jeremy Ruston, TiddlyWiki, has grown in popularity. It has been extended with various plug-ins and adapted to many special purpose personal wikis.
What is the basic difference between a normal wiki like MediaWiki (used in Wikipedia ) and TiddlyWiki?
TiddlyWiki is lightweight, it is a single page wiki using only Javascript, HTML and CSS.
A complete TiddlyWiki can consist of a single file, if the Javascript and CSS files are embedded. Media files such as images and mutimedia are external and can be zipped together with the main file. The whole zip file can then be dropped into a server, unzip it, and you have a personal wiki ready to use. It could also be passed on to friends using USB devices.
Of course a TiddlyWiki is not meant to be bulky, although some have a filesize over 1 Megabyte, or it would be slow to load from the server.
You can always split a big TiddlyWiki into several smaller ones, but in that case the tags would not be shared. Once it is loaded, Javascript will ensure an impressive AJAX experience.
On local computers it is even easier to use, it is just a normal HTML file and we could be liberal with file sizes.
Information in a TiddlyWiki is divided into chunks called Tiddlers, each with its own urls.
Editing a TiddlyWiki does not require knowledge of HTML, but requires a little time getting use to. For example the convention of using CamelCase for automatic hyperlinks (it can be overwritten) is very convenient.
Thus the easy-to-carry and easy-to-edit features are some of the characteristics of TiddlyWiki. Jeremy Ruston calls TiddlyWiki a reusable non-linear personal web notebook.
The term non-linear here means that it can be written and read in a nonsequential mode.
Finally TiddlyWiki is open source and free.
If you are still not convinced with the benefits of TiddlyWiki, read: TiddlyWiki for the rest of us, What are the benefits of TiddlyWikis?
Now what can we do with a TiddlyWiki?
Blogging, Journals, Photo Albums, To-Do-Lists (simple project management), writing a book, knowledge encapsulation, web-based presentations without PowerPoint, Recipes, Mathematical Notebooks, and many many more.
Here are some examples of TiddlyWiki:
* MonkeyGTD GTD is Getting Things Done
* TiddlyMath and SciencePad are TiddlyWikis combined with ASCIIMATH, a system of Mathematical Notations for the Web, developed by Peter Jipsen, developed entirely using Javascript. In addition SciencePad uses a wysiwyg HTML editor called HTML Area.
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