Interesting article giving the perspective of someone who has been away from TiddlyWiki for a few years:
Way back in the mists of time (actually, January 2009) I wrote about a really cool tool called TiddlyWiki, a “non-linear personal web notebook”. Fast forward to today and I just had an out of body experience: Completely by accident I found a TiddlyWiki that I started when I wrote that piece and it still works!
Finding code that works flawlessly after just two or three years is magical enough but after seven years?! And given that TiddlyWiki is written as a single page Web application and considering how different browsers are now than they were in 2009, the fact that the old version of TiddlyWiki still works is not short of miraculous.
A thesis notebook based on TiddlyWiki.
This is an example of a thesis notebook powered by TiddlyWiki 5.0.8-beta.
TiddlyWiki is a great piece of software created by Jeremy Ruston. It allows you, among other things, to take notes, organize ideas, store information, and display all your stuff the way you want. It is an incredibly flexible tool you can adapt to fit almost all your needs.
This TiddlyWiki has been customized to serve as a philosophy notebook centered around authors, books and papers, concepts and theories, and personal notes. I use it along with Zotero, which is a dedicated bibliography software. Both are free, open source projects. TiddlyWiki can be downloaded at https://tiddlywiki.com.
A desktop application for TiddlyWiki, running on Windows.
https://lamusia.github.io/#ATWiki
TiddlyWiki for Windows. A unique non-linear notebook for capturing, organising and sharing complex information.
buggyj has created several useful plugins, including a WYSIWYG HTML editor, a configurable calendar and tag lists with draggable ordering.
A collection of customisations and macros from Danielo Rodriguez.
http://braintest.tiddlyspot.com/
This is my personal tiddlywiki file for testing.
Here I will post the tools and Macros that I develop for this awesome tool. That way, all the help the comunity gave me can came back to the comunity again.
Task & Delegation Tracking, Meetings & Agenda Items, Project Roles, Progress & Status Updates, Reference Items, Tickler Calendar, Conversation Logging, Book Notes & Library, and More!
Cardo is a standalone, browser-based tool that can be used as a simple task manager, or as a complex Project Management system (and indeed, I do use it this way in my daily work) as well as a fully Wiki-ized personal knowledge store. It runs completely independently in the browser, even without an Internet connection, making it possible to carry around on a USB stick, or to use on the morning commute.
An adaptor to enable TiddlyWiki to sync changes with a CouchDB database.
https://github.com/wshallum/couchadaptor
CouchDB sync adaptor for TiddlyWiki 5. Requires TiddlyWiki >= 5.1.2.
Works in limited testing. Not sure how well it handles conflicts.
A guide to creating a baby journal with TiddlyWiki.
http://a-penguin-in-redmond.blogspot.co.uk/2014/02/creating-baby-journal-with-tiddlywiki-5.html
Keeping a journal about your baby is fun. It allows you to keep track of those events in your baby's life and development that are most important to you, and to tell them in your own words. [...]
There are plenty of online services that can help to keep such a diary, but you need to have an internet connection to access them, and you have to trust them to keep your data safe.
A TiddlyWiki plugin for kanban-like organization in the style of Trello™ using boards, lists, and cards.
Dynamic Tables is a set of macros that allow you to create tables where the rows are created from tiddlers and the columns from the tiddler fields, or where the columns are created from tiddlers and the rows from their fields. Individual cells can be edited on the fly. Row tables can be sorted by columns and column tables can be sorted by rows.
A plugin that allows to encrypt your tiddlers individually Danielo Rodriguez.
http://danielorodriguez.com/TW5-EncryptTiddlerPlugin/
Advantages:
- You can specify a different password for each tiddler if you want.
- You don't have to encrypt your whole wiky.
- If you forget your password, you only lose a tiddler.
- It's possible to edit the tiddler content , tags and fields except the encrypt field after encryption.
- [...]
An extension for Mozilla Firefox that smoothes out some of the friction from TiddlyWiki's built-in HTML5 fallback saver, making it almost as easy to use as TiddlyFox. The workflow is intended to work out of the box, without configuration.
https://github.com/pmario/file-backups which contains links to the documentation and introduction video(s).
A chrome version is planned!
This wiki gives examples for various filters and their use in the list widget
http://tobibeer.github.io/tw/filters/#Filter%20Examples
This wiki gives examples for various filters and their use in the list widget. A good starting point to understand what filters yield which results also is test-filters.js.
The Font Awesome 5 Free SVG images collection converted to tiddlers that you can easily import (drag'n'drop) in your wiki.
An adaption of the "Ghostwriter" theme for TiddlyWiki.
https://ibnishak.github.io/ghostwriter/
Ghostwriter is a popular, minimalist and mobile responsive theme for the blogging platform ghost. This is an adaptation for TiddlyWiki.
Creates bubble maps of Biblical texts.
http://giffmex.org/gospels.bubbles.html#Gospels%20Bubbles
This TiddlyWiki, which is still under construction, has several features that together make it lightning fast to find passages, types of passages, themes, people, places and images in the New Testament Gospels. The bubblemaps are color-coded overviews of each Gospel. Each type of passage (miracle story, parable, etc) was assigned a color. Bubblemaps allow you to do three things:
- The bubblemaps are color-coded overviews of each Gospel. Each type of passage (miracle story, parable, etc) was assigned a color. Bubblemaps allow you to do three things:
- See how the different types of passages are distributed throughout each Gospel.
- Hover over passages to see the verses and titles.
- Click on a passage to open it and see the themes and other data it mentions.
- The themes by passage indexes are lists of the passages in each Gospel, followed by the themes and other data found in the passage. Clicking on a theme calls up a list of all the passages that mention that theme.
- The indexes of themes contain lists of links to each theme, person, group, place and image. Clicking on a theme calls up a list of all the passages that mention that theme.
- There is a search window hidden in the right hand menu. Use the search window to find passages quickly, by typing things like sower or paralytic. Click the arrows in the upper right of the screen to open the menu and search.
An adaptation of the TiddlyWiki powered GTD® system formerly known as MonkeyGTD for TiddlyWiki version 5.
GSD5 is a Getting-Thing-Done tool for TiddlyWiki5 based off the mGSD classic TiddlyWiki.
A collection of helpers by Thomas Elmiger, among them a tweet button macro, a text-stretch solution, a snippet extraction macro and a tiddler that installs a scroll-to-top button via drag-and-drop.
Quick Extensions for TiddlyWiki 5 – […] As I take from the community, I am happy if I can give back. You can use my stuff to do whatever you like, but remember to save a back-up first.
Thomas
A guide in Russian to creating an online shop with TiddlyWiki. No serverside code is needed, instead orders are handled by Disqus.
Tony Ching's quick guide for sharing TiddlyWiki with Google Drive.
https://googledrive.com/host/0B51gSXixfJ2Qb0I4R2M4MWJVMlU
Anyway your self-contained a non-linear personal web notebook can be hosted on Google Drive, a free cloud service from Google.com. Because TiddlyWiki5 now supports the Stanford Javascript Crypto Library (SJCL), you can encrypt your content from prying eyes (excluding the NSA of course)
An explainer about Twederation, a system of sharing information between TiddlyWiki instances.
TWederation is a system for sharing information between participating TiddlyWikis without using a client-server model. The link here points to a tiddler that gives more details. This particular implementation works something like an online forum. On the rest of the site, you can follow discussions by the developers and collaborators occurring within the Twederation "network" itself.
An extensive collection of hints and tips from Jed Carty.
http://inmysocks.tiddlyspot.com
I made this so that some of my friends with absolutely no coding experience could use some of the better features of TW5 without having to learn much. I am hopefully going to continue updating it as I learn new things. There isn't really anything here that isn't available in plenty of other places, but I figured that since I spent a while putting it together and people keep saying that TW needs more documentation I would post it here.
A step by step guide to running TiddlyWiki on a CentOS Virtual Private Server.
http://www.rosehosting.com/blog/install-and-run-tiddlywiki-on-a-centoos-6-vps-using-nginx/
In this tutorial we will guide you through the steps of installing and running TiddlyWiki on a CentOS 6 VPS.
We will also install and configure Nginx as a reverse proxy, so you can run TiddlyWiki behind Nginx.
A complete online shop made in TiddlyWiki!
A collection of extensions by @malgam
http://malsandbox.tiddlyspot.com
The "loadnew" plugin provides the JavaScript module $:/plugins/malgam/loadnew/loadnew.js that implements an incremental load command for Tiddlywiki 5.
The javascript code is based on the built-in module $:/core/modules/commands/load.js that loads tiddlers from a Tiddlywiki file into a node.js Tiddlywiki instance. This command loads all non-system tiddlers, irrespective of whether they have been modified since last loaded. As a result, all tiddlers in the node.js tiddlers folder will end up with a new modification date.
In contrast, the loadnew command only loads tiddlers that either don't already exist in the tiddlers folder, or have a newer modified date than the existing tiddler.
With a backup strategy that uses a file system snapshot process to preserve historical versions of tiddlers, the loadnew command minimises the sizes of the resulting snapshots.
Mathcell allows spreadsheet-like abilities in a completely contained TiddlyWiki.
http://mathcell.tiddlyspot.com/
Mathcell allows spreadsheet-like abilities in a completely contained TiddlyWiki. Additional abilities allow it work as a general math engine.
A Spanish guide to using TiddlyWiki on Android.
http://3palmeras.wordpress.com/2014/11/05/microblogging-con-tiddlywiki/
Tiddlywiki software is prodigious based on javascript which is capable of holding a notepad that can be edited with Internet Explorer or function as a full blog, contained in a single file.
Translation by Google Translate
An adaption of the "Moments" theme for TiddlyWiki.
http://tesseractmoments.surge.sh/
Moments is a beautiful free and responsive theme available for wordpress from here: http://www.s5themes.com/theme/moments/. This is an adaptation of the same for TW5 platform. All the design credits goes to the site and the original designer. If TW5 is going to be here for 25 years, might as well suit up.
A terrific demo of drag and drop, pan and zoom, and other sophisticated touch effects. Based on the muuri plugin by Uwe Stuehler.
NoteSelf is your personal, private, customizable, Evernote-like experience. You want cloud? Fine! You don't? Fine too! It's all yours, It's your decision! Why not be a bit selfish?
NoteSelf is the perfect place to store your ideas, notes, thoughts, tips, tricks, recipes... whatever you want to put into it! NoteSelf will store, index, and make it easily searchable, so you will find it instantly whenever you need it!
You already know and love Evernote, we know it. It is comfortable, it syncs, has search capabilities... Wow, it's almost perfect, but what about:
- Privacy - Everything is stored on the Evernote's servers!
- Customization - If you don't like the interface of Evernote, there's nothing you can do
NoteSelf is built on top of TiddlyWiki, a powerful, free, highly customizable and open-source personal wiki. We took the best of it, it's powerful customization system, and mixed it with one of the best embedded databases available, PouchDb, for bringing the synchronization capabilities you need.
A quick guide to using TiddlyWiki (written in German)
http://michaelsonntag.net/notizen-mit-tiddlywiki-systemuebergreifend-nutzen
Those using multiple different computer platforms (if only PC and Android) knows for certain: You would like to sync notes across computers and thereby be independent of any apps or services. I am concerned at any rate so and so I am constantly looking for the perfect solution.
With TiddlyWiki I found it mostly. As the name suggests, it TiddlyWiki is a Wikisystem. In contrast to all other wikis, TiddlyWiki is a single HTML file that runs in the browser and thus can be used on all modern operating systems. And because there is only one file, it can be very easily via the well-known cloud services (Dropbox, Google Drive, ownCloud) or synchronized with FTP or used on a USB stick.
(Translation from German by Google Translate)
A fast Forth interpreter for the Commodore PET, written in 6502 assembly language. The TiddlyWiki containing program documentation is automatically generated from the source code: see https://github.com/chitselb/pettil.
http://chitselb.com/files/tiddlypettil.html
Objectives of the project are, in no particular order:
- make a Forth that runs on my Commodore PET 2001
- have fun
- improve my "6502 assembly golf" skills
- find other people who are interested in this project
An extension for Google Chrome and Mozilla Firefox that smoothes out some of the friction from TiddlyWiki's built-in HTML5 fallback saver, making it almost as easy to use as TiddlyFox once it is set up correctly.
Detailed description of setting up TiddlyWiki on Node.js on OS X.
http://undefinedvalue.com/2015/04/02/setting-personal-tiddlywiki-server-os-x
For a new job, I decided to set up a personal wiki to keep notes. I wanted to keep it simple, meeting these requirements:
- All the data is in a Dropbox folder (so it can be automatically synced between machines)
- It must support Markdown syntax
After looking at the options, I settled on TiddlyWiki. I've used "classic TiddlyWiki" before, and liked its simplicity, but I was always a little annoyed with the weird steps you have to go through to save changes. The new version of TiddlyWiki includes support for running it as a real HTTP server, so you can use it just like an online wiki.
But it took me a couple of hours to figure out how to set that up. The TiddlyWiki documentation is not clear ("not clear" is a euphemistic way of saying "terrible"). So, I've written up these instructions in the hope it will spare somebody else all the frustration I had.
A gamers guide to using TiddlyWiki.
http://helugame.wordpress.com/2013/09/07/shining-ark-7-using-tiddlywiki/
I’ve been using TiddlyWiki for this game mainly to record the monsters’ locations and the items that they drop. This is so that when I need a certain item to upgrade/create weapons, I can quickly look it up; which monsters drop it and which quests have those monsters.
As I play the game, as I encounter new information, I just input them into my Shining Ark TiddlyWiki. It’s like I’m building a wiki from scratch. The reason why I don’t just use online wikis is that 1) it’s too easy to get spoiled and 2) sometimes online wikis provide too much information (who cares about the non-gameplay related descriptions that can be found in the game, etc).
A collection of plugins by Stephen Kimmel, including a number of additional editor toolbar buttons.
http://skplugins.tiddlyspot.com/
In keeping with the general spirit of the TiddlyWiki community, ie, you develop something useful and/or potentially interesting you share it with others, I'm sharing some of the plugins I've developed to go with the new Editor Toolbar. You'll find them and a more extensive discussion of what each does at http://skplugins.tiddlyspot.com/
Slides and Stories is a repository of the tools to optimize TW for scientific research and for presenting and publishing results.
http://slidesnstories.tiddlyspot.com
SlidesnStories
...is a tool to save and reload sets of Tiddlers. This is already working, The aim is to develop a mechanism to transform these into instant slideshows.
MetaTabs
is a tool which gives you the possibility to attach and show specific information in tabs at the bottom of each Tiddler: ideas, notes, tasks, stories and presentations, comments, annotations and footnotes.
It is inspired by MagicTabs and Tiddlyscholar by Alberto Molina Pérez, which are very elaborated tools that alas do not seem to be in active development any more. I wanted to change the behaviour in some ways. For example I wanted show tabs only if they have content....furthermore there is
- an export-plugin,
- a footnote-plugin,
- and a plugin to rearrange Tiddlers in the StoryRiver
An enormous collection of tips beautifully curated by Tobias Beer. It is actually a collection of sites, with sub-sites dedicated to topics such as filtering (http://tobibeer.github.io/tw/filters/).
http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/
A collection of references and sandbox for testing concepts around TiddlyWiki 5...
A Kanban implementation for TiddlyWiki with a familiar look and feel (see the demo).
https://ibnishak.github.io/Tesseract/projects/tekan/Tekan.html
This is Tekan, a TW based kanban. The easiest way to know tekan is to use it. So let us begin, shall we?
TiddlyServer is a special purpose Desktop app, designed to facilitate managing multiple instances of TiddlyWiki running as a server. It does not require internet acess to access the wikis.
https://github.com/mklauber/TiddlyServer/releases/
TiddlyServer can import both TiddlyWiki files and TiddlyFolder wikis. For each wiki, you specify a prefix to serve it with and the source to import from. It will copy the wikis to its own internal store and begin serving them up at http://localhost:8080/{prefix}/. The export button for each wiki will convert it to a single file wiki.
Reaction to TiddlyWiki5 from the translator of the German edition of TiddlyWikiClassic.
http://blog.netplanet.org/2014/01/03/tiddlywiki-5-im-betatest/
There is little software that can still inspire me so even after years, as on the first day. This includes TiddlyWiki, the "pocket-wiki". The latter is because the Wiki completely fits into an HTML file, and this HTML file brings everything - JavaScript program logic, CSS appearance and the entire Wiki content as stored records. So a TiddlyWiki file is then sometimes happy times some megabytes in size, but just has the unbeatable advantage that it works just as fast file created locally in a variety of browsers.
(Translation from German by Google Translate)
An early release of an edition of TiddlyWiki customised for rigorous, academic notetaking.
http://tw5.scholars.tiddlyspot.com/
TiddlyWiki for Scholars is a personal customization of TiddlyWiki 5.0.13-beta I made for note-taking from readings, but it can be useful for other purposes. The idea behind this adaptation is to show and to allow creating relevant data related to the current tiddler without leaving the tiddler.
A collection of tips and guides in French, introduced by this blog post:
http://sylvain.naud.in/post/2014/10/29/Ressources-pour-TiddlyWiki-5-%28FR%29
Ce guide de prise en main de TiddlyWiki vous permettra de débuter sur ce logiciel : rédiger du texte avec la syntaxe wiki, insérer des images, créer des Tiddler, faire une recherche, ajouter des fonctionnalités, et bien d'autres choses.. Bonne lecture ! Sylvain
A Knowledge Network about TiddlyWiki.
http://confocal-manawatu.pbworks.com/w/page/113574373/TiddlyWiki
Interconnected with the visual taxonomy at every node: http://debategraph.org/Stream.aspx?nid=457381&vt=bubble&dc=focus
TWKN will be transferred into TWederation/TiddlyMap format as soon as I am convinced in reliable and secure versioning and multi-user operation in TW format. Your assistance and support would be highly appreciated.
Notes and tips by a developer working on writing TiddlyWiki plugins – including TWExe, a widget for running Windows scripts and executables.
A collection of articles covering integration with Fargo, Font Awesome and Google Calendar, and tips for managing task lists.
http://blog.jeffreykishner.com/tiddlywiki/
I have become a regular user of TiddlyWiki and have become so accustomed to using Font Awesome icons in Fargo that I wanted to incorporate the icons into my wikis as well.
A topical index of known plugins, tutorials, themes, and other helpful tools for TiddlyWiki.
https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM
Some of the topics indexed so far include:
- Background images and background colors
- Breadcrumbs
- Business - examples
- CSS / Styles, general
- Calendars, dates and timelines
- Checklists
- Collaboration
- Color palettes
- Colors
- Data visualizations
- Developer / advanced tools
- Diplay tiddlers horizontally
- Dropdowns
- Educational
- External files
- Fields
- Fonts
- Fun and games
- Home and lifestyle
- IFrames and embedding media
- Image galleries, modals and lightboxes
- Images, icons, emojis
- Importing and exporting between TiddlyWiki files
- Includes scaffolding within a tiddler, dragging to reorder tiddlers, choosing the number of columns
- Interfacing with, importing and exporting to and from other formats
- Knowledge bases, dictionaries and glossaries
- Layout/UI
- Lightboxes
- Links, linking
- Lists and filters
- Maps and geography
- Masonry, scaffolding
- Math
- MindMapping
- Mobile tools
- Music and sound
- Navigation
- node.js
- Note-taking
- Open the "filter" tab
- Partially hidden tiddlers
- Personal websites (examples)
- Presentations and slideshows
- Printing
- Project management
- Publishing and hosting TiddlyWikis on the web
- Searching tools
- Security and backup tools
- Social media, sharing, comments
- Spreadsheets and math
- Startup
- Sticky titles
- Story and screenplay creation
- Table of contents
- Tables, charts and graphs (cf data visualizations)
- Tabs
- Tags, tagging
- Task management and productivity - to do lists
- Themes
- Understanding TiddlyWiki
- Writing and editing
Dutch blog post about TiddlyWiki
https://breinbout.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/tiddlywiki/
I'm allergic to websites that are highly dependent on JavaScript. I think that JavaScript has many useful applications to add functionality to a site, but content needs to be visible if JavaScript is switched off. I use the NoScript extension for Firefox and surf with pleasure over the Internet without spontaneous things happen that I do not give permission. I love JavaScript on a short leash. More crazier maybe I'm so excited about TiddlyWiki.
(Translation from Dutch by Google Translate)
An extensive collection of tips and resources for users of TiddlyWiki in Japanese.
http://bacchus.ivory.ne.jp/bourbon/
TiddlyWikiをHTML5にしたTiddlyWiki5が正式にリリースされました。このTiddlyWiki5の使い方について、自分で試した機能を中心に解説します。
TiddlyWiki5は、非常に多機能なローカルWikiです。このブログに書いてあることは、TiddlyWiki5で出来ることのごく一部です。
Chris Hunt's detailed developer tutorials for getting started with writing widgets for TiddlyWiki.
These pages document aspects TiddlyWiki5 programming, sharing "lessons learned" to help developers to get started with TiddlyWiki5 customization and extension.
There are currently two articles in this wiki:
- A Simple Widget
- A More Complex Widget
A TiddlyWiki5 forum on Reddit.
https://www.reddit.com/r/TiddlyWiki5/
A TiddlyWiki5 forum on Reddit. As of 2016, it claims to have the most up-to-date list of plugins available for TW5.
Huge collection of customisations and tweaks from Ton Gerner.
http://tongerner.tiddlyspot.com/
I am a longtime user of TiddlyWiki Classic and still use it daily since you can't do everything in TiddlyWiki 5 (yet) ;)
I started experimenting with TW5 at the end of September 2013 (alpha10). Since I missed a few things in the layout I got used to in TiddlyWiki Classic 1, I started with modifying the layout of TW5. To share my knowledge, I made a few guides about these 'modifications'. The guides started as a non-linear personal web notebook (yeah, the subtitle of TiddlyWiki!). I started experimenting with layout things and used TW5 to document my experiments.
A wealth of hints, tips and notes about using TiddlyWiki on Node.js:
TiddlyWiki is different from other wikis because of its principle of dynamically customizeable "storyline" based on tiddlers as basic units of information. That is, the user "composes" their own version of the webpage by clicking on tiddler links, which add tiddlers to the page in order to compose a storyline.
The Node.js implementation in TiddlyWiki5 adds all the advantages of flat-file markup language based type of site. This makes TiddlyWiki an excellent alternative to flat-file based CMS/webpage/blog authoring systems for the web.
Also very cool is the treatment of tags as menus everywhere.
http://larigot.avarts.ionio.gr/users/iani/wikis/tw5square.html
Also available on GitHub (download and save index.html and open it in your browser).
Timimi is a Web Extension and executable for Firefox, Chrome and Chromium that allows it to save standalone TiddlyWiki files.
https://github.com/ibnishak/Timimi
This is an addon using native messaging, essentially handing over the contents to a webextension host (executable) which does the actual saving. Once installed, you can save the standalone TW from anywhere in your hard drive without any more interactions, like the original Tiddlyfox addon.
Stephan Hradek's growing catalogue of tips, tutorials, and other resources. Stephan has also developed several plugins and macros that you can find at http://tiddlystuff.tiddlyspot.com/.
http://tw5magick.tiddlyspot.com/
Some things in TiddlyWiki seem like Magic. As my preferred nick is Skeeve, I felt that TW5 Magick is a proper name for this collection of some of the "magic" tricks one can do with TiddlyWiki.
Tips and guides for using TiddlyWiki.
http://techlifeweb.com/tw5tribalknowledge.html
I never used Node.js until a couple weeks ago when I wanted to try a TW5 installation on Node and expand my knowledge a bit. I figured someone else may be in the same boat so I wrote it all down
An alternative LaTeX plugin for TiddlyWiki5. It supports a wider set of LaTeX commands than KaTeX, though not as extensive as MathJax
http://tw5-texzilla.tiddlyspot.com
This plugin provides LaTeX support in TiddlyWiki5, using the TeXZilla latex parser to generate MathML.
Only Firefox and Safari support MathML at the moment, so the plugin is only useful if you're using one of these browsers. It might be possible to combine this plugin with MathJax to convert MathML to something that other browsers can understand, e.g. HTML+CSS, but I haven't tried this.
A collection of TiddlyWiki resources from Mario Pietsch, with a focus on cloud deployments. Mario also maintains the German translation of TiddlyWiki.
My name is Mario Pietsch from Austria. I'm living near Salzburg.
This page, will be the portal to my TiddlyWiki, TiddlyWeb related content.
A guide (in French) to using TiddlyWiki on the BiblioBox, a variation of the PirateBox mobile communication and file sharing system.
http://bibliobox.net/blog/post/2014/07/16/un-wiki-sur-votre-bibliobox-avec-tiddlywiki
I've known TiddlyWiki since its beginning in 2004. For personal or professional needs, I used it regularly for notepad staff in 2007 and 2012. But I admit I ignored the tool during the past two years. And then I said yesterday: but why not put TiddlyWiki on a BiblioBox? Because it is a single HTML file with javascript. In addition I knew the existence of a server version for saving online amendments.
Hand optimised from a translation by Google Translate
A collection of references for testing concepts around TiddlyWiki 5...
This is PMario's playground with ramblings about TiddlyWiki and related stuff.
It basically is a "jump off" page to various TiddlyWiki sites, that show editions, themes and plugins.
Matabele's stylish and clean system for personal task management.
This is my work in progress version of TW5, incorporating various features and ideas as and when they intrigue me. To grab any feature you may wish to try, drag the listed tiddlers across to the dropzone of an empty TiddlyWiki 5.0.10-beta
An experiment to embed interactive 3D graphics within TiddlyWiki by Jamal Wills. It is based X3DOM, an open source JavaScript library.
TiddlyWiki is an incredibly flexible and versatile tool that is conceived and constructed differently than most software. This can make it hard to understand until the moment when it clicks, and becomes a seamless extension of your brain.
Starting with the basics, TiddlyWiki is a note-taking web application you can download for free, store wherever you like and customise however you wish. Use it to capture, organise and share your notes in ways that word processors and other note-taking tools cannot.
TiddlyWiki is designed to be non-linear, structuring content with stories, tags, hyperlinks, and other features. You can organise and retrieve your notes in ways that conform to your personal thought patterns, rather than feel chained to one preset organisational structure.
You can use TiddlyWiki as a single file that you view and edit through any web browser, whether you are online or offline. Or you can use it as a powerful Node.js application that stores each of your notes as a separate file.
How can you make TiddlyWiki work for you? We recommend you start with our introductory documentation listed below, and then browse the TableOfContents, available in the Contents tab in the sidebar. Or just follow our simple instructions and try it out for yourself!
A plugin to integrate the Ace editor into TiddlyWiki.
Being quite new to TW5 development I tried my best to draft a SyncAdaptor to store tiddlers in IndexedDb. This is quite useful if an application / plugin installation is not possible (we have quite some restrictions at work...).
TiddlyWiki wouldn't be possible without the ongoing support of the TiddlyWiki Community. Their attention and feedback has made it possible to gain an understanding of what is wanted from the product, and their passion for it has taught me that it is worth the investment.
TiddlyWiki incorporates code from these fine OpenSource projects:
- The Stanford Javascript Crypto Library
- The Jasmine JavaScript Test Framework
- Normalize.css by Nicolas Gallagher
And media from these projects:
- World flag icons from Wikipedia
Introduction
The action-createtiddler widget is an action widget that creates new tiddlers. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
There are several differences from the tm-new-tiddler message:
- The new tiddler is not automatically displayed in the story river
- The title of the new tiddler is made available for subsequent operations
Content and Attributes
The action-createtiddler widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $basetitle | The initial title that will be attempted. If a tiddler with that title already exists, then a numerical counter is added to the title and incremented until it is unique |
| $savetitle | A text reference identifying a field or index into which the title of the newly created tiddler will be stored after it is created |
| $timestamp | Specifies whether the timestamp(s) of the target tiddler will be updated (modified and modifier, plus created and creator for newly created tiddlers). Can be "yes" (the default) or "no" |
| {any attributes not starting with $} | Each attribute name specifies a field to be created in the new tiddler |
Examples
New button caption: <$edit-text tiddler="$:/state/new-button-caption" tag="input" default=""/>
<$button>
<$action-createtiddler $basetitle="Homemade Button" tags="$:/tags/PageControls" text={{$:/state/new-button-caption}}/>
Create non-functional page control button
</$button>That renders as:
New button caption:
Introduction
The action-deletefield widget is an action widget that deletes specified fields of a tiddler. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
Content and Attributes
The action-deletefield widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $tiddler | The title of the tiddler whose fields are to be modified (if not provided defaults to the current tiddler) |
| $field | Optional name of a field to delete |
| {any attributes not starting with $} | Each attribute name specifies a field to be deleted. The attribute value is ignored and need not be specified |
Examples
Here is an example of a button that deletes the caption and tags fields of the current tiddler:
<$button>
<$action-deletefield caption tags/>
Delete "caption" and "tags"
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that deletes the modified date and tags fields of the tiddler HelloThere:
<$button>
<$action-deletefield $tiddler="HelloThere" modified tags/>
Delete "modified" and "tags" from ~HelloThere
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that uses the optional $field attribute to delete the text field of the tiddler HelloThere:
<$button>
<$action-deletefield $tiddler="HelloThere" $field="text"/>
Delete text from ~HelloThere
</$button>That renders as:
Introduction
The action-deletetiddler widget is an action widget that deletes tiddlers. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
There are several differences compared to the WidgetMessage: tm-delete-tiddler:
- The user is not prompted to confirm the deletion
- No automatic updating of the story list
- No special handling of draft tiddlers
Content and Attributes
The action-deletetiddler widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $tiddler | Optional title of the tiddler to be deleted |
| $filter | Optional filter identifying tiddlers to be deleted |
Examples
Here is an example of a button that deletes the tiddler HelloThere:
<$button>
<$action-deletetiddler $tiddler="HelloThere"/>
Delete "~HelloThere"
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that deletes all tiddlers tagged TableOfContents:
<$button>
<$action-deletetiddler $filter="[tag[TableOfContents]]"/>
Delete tiddlers tagged "~TableOfContents"
</$button>That renders as:
Introduction
The action-listops widget is an action widget that manipulates user lists in any field or data index. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
Content and Attributes
The action-listops widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $tiddler | The title of the tiddler whose lists are to be modified (if not provided defaults to the current tiddler |
| $field | The name of a field to be manipulated as a list (defaults to 'list') |
| $index | Optional index of a property in a data tiddler index to be manipulated as a list |
| $filter | An optional filter expression, the output of which will be saved to the field/index being manipulated |
| $subfilter | An optional subfilter expression, which takes the list being manipulated as input, and saves the modified list back to the field/index being manipulated |
| $tags | An optional subfilter expression, which takes the 'tags' field of the target tiddler as input, and saves the modified list of tags back to the 'tags' field |
Extended Filter Operators
A number of extended filter operators are necessary for the manipulation of lists. These operators have been designed primarily for use in subfilter expressions whereby the modified current list is returned in place of the current list.
| Listops Operators | ||
|---|---|---|
| Operator | Purpose | |
| allafter | discard all items except those after the marker | |
| allbefore | discard all items except those before the marker | |
| append | append a range of items from an array to the list | |
| insertbefore | insert an item T into a list immediately before an item B |
|
| move | move marker N places in the list | |
| prepend | prepend a range of items from an array to the list | |
| putafter | move N trailing items after the marker | |
| putbefore | move N trailing items before the marker | |
| putfirst | move N trailing items to the head of the list | |
| putlast | move N leading items to the tail of the list | |
| remove | remove a list of titles specified in the operand from the input | |
| replace | replace marker with N trailing items | |
| sortby | sort the current list in the order of the list referenced in the operand | |
Examples
In this example we shall populate and then clear a list in an ordinary field (myfield) of this tiddler (the default.)
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $subfilter="efg hlm pqr"/>
Populate 'myfield'
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $subfilter="abc xyz"/>
Append More Items
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $subfilter="-abc -hlm"/>
Remove Items
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $filter="[[]]"/>
Clear 'myfield'
</$button>
<$list filter="[list[!!myfield]]">
</$list>That renders as:
In this example we shall append and remove items from a list in an ordinary field (myfield) of this tiddler (the default) and sort the resultant list. We shall then remove some of the appended items and sort the resulting list in reverse order.
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $subfilter="-efg ijk xyz [[this is a title]] +[sort[]]"/>
Mangle List
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $field="myfield" $subfilter="-xyz -[[this is a title]] +[!sort[]]"/>
Unmangle List
</$button>
<$list filter="[list[!!myfield]]">
</$list>That renders as:
In this example we shall append a few tags to the 'tags' field of this tiddler (the default.) We shall then remove some of the appended tags.
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="+[append{Days of the Week!!short}] $:/tag1 $:/tag2 $:/tag3"/>
Populate 'tags'
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="+[!remove:2{!!tags}]"/>
Remove Last Two Tags
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="+[!prefix[$:/]]"/>
Remove System Tags
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="-Mon -Tue"/>
Remove Mon and Tue
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="+[prefix[$:/]] ActionWidgets Widgets"/>
Remove User Tags
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-listops $tags="+[[]] ActionWidgets Widgets"/>
Clear Tags
</$button>
<$list filter="[list[!!tags]]">
</$list>That renders as:
Introduction
The action-navigate widget is an action widget that sends a tm-navigate message back up the widget tree. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
Content and Attributes
The action-navigate widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $to | The title of the target tiddler for the navigation (if not provided defaults to the current tiddler |
| $scroll | Optional parameter determining whether the navigation will also cause a scroll to the target tiddler (see below) |
Scroll handling
The optional $scroll attribute can be set to "yes" to force scrolling to occur to bring the target tiddler into view. If set to "no" then scrolling does not occur. If the $scroll attribute is omitted then scrolling occurs unless either:
- the control key is pressed
- the action was initiated with the middle mouse button (if available)
Note that if navigating to multiple tiddlers at once you should use the same $scroll setting for all of them.
Examples
Here is an example of button that navigates to two different tiddlers at once:
<$button>
<$action-navigate $to="ButtonWidget"/>
<$action-navigate $to="ActionWidgets"/>
Click me!
</$button>That renders as:
Introduction
The action-sendmessage widget is an action widget that sends a message back up the widget tree. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
Content and Attributes
The action-sendmessage widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $message | The message to send (eg, WidgetMessage: tm-new-tiddler) |
| $param | Optional parameter string whose meaning is dependent on the message being sent |
| $name | Optional name of additional parameter |
| $value | Value for optional parameter whose name is specified in $name |
| {any attributes not starting with $} | Multiple additional, optional named parameters that are attached to the message |
Examples
Here is an example of button that displays both a notification and a wizard, and creates a new tiddler with tags and text:
<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-modal" $param="SampleWizard"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-notify" $param="SampleNotification"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-new-tiddler" title="This is newly created tiddler" tags="OneTag [[Another Tag]]" text=<<now "Today is DDth, MMM YYYY">>/>
Click me!
</$button>That renders as:
Introduction
The action-setfield widget is an action widget that assigns values to the fields of a tiddler. ActionWidgets are used within triggering widgets such as the ButtonWidget.
Content and Attributes
The action-setfield widget is invisible. Any content within it is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| $tiddler | The title of the tiddler whose fields are to be modified (if not provided defaults to the current tiddler) |
| $field | Optional name of a field to be assigned the $value attribute |
| $index | Optional index of a property in a data tiddler to be assigned the $value attribute |
| $value | The value to be assigned to the field or index identified by the $field or $index attribute. If neither is specified then the value is assigned to the text field. If no value is specified, $field or $index will be deleted. |
| $timestamp | Specifies whether the timestamp(s) of the target tiddler will be updated (modified and modifier, plus created and creator for newly created tiddlers). Can be "yes" (the default) or "no" |
| {any attributes not starting with $} | Each attribute name specifies a field to be modified with the attribute value providing the value to assign to the field |
Examples
Here is an example of a pair of buttons that open the control panel directly to specified tabs. They work by using action-setfield to set the state tiddler for the control panel tabs.
<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab-1749438307" text="$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Appearance"/>
<$action-navigate $to="$:/ControlPanel"/>
Go to Control Panel "Appearance" tab
</$button>
<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab-1749438307" text="$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Settings"/>
<$action-navigate $to="$:/ControlPanel"/>
Go to Control Panel "Settings" tab
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that assigns tags and fields to the tiddler HelloThere, and then navigates to it and opens the tiddler info panel on the "Fields" tab:
<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="HelloThere" tags="NewTag [[Another New Tag]]" color="red"/>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/popup/tiddler-info--1779055697" text="(568,1443,33,39)"/>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab--1890574033" text="$:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields"/>
<$action-navigate $to="HelloThere"/>
Modify ~HelloThere
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that assigns tags and fields to the tiddler HelloThere, and then initiates editing it:
<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="HelloThere" tags="MoreTag [[Further More Tags]]" color="green"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-edit-tiddler" $param="HelloThere"/>
Edit ~HelloThere
</$button>That renders as:
Here is an example of a button that opens the control panel directly to the "Appearance" tabs:
<$button>
<$action-setfield $tiddler="$:/state/tab-1749438307" $field="text" $value="$:/core/ui/ControlPanel/Appearance"/>
<$action-navigate $to="$:/ControlPanel"/>
Go to Control Panel "Appearance" tab
</$button>That renders as:
The variable actionTiddler is used in subtly different ways by different widgets:
- Within the actions string of the DroppableWidget, the actionTiddler variable contains the title of the tiddler being dropped.
- Within the startactions and endactions string of the DroppableWidget, the actionTiddler variable contains a quoted Title List of all of the titles being dragged.
Action widgets are a special type of widget that have no visual appearance but perform an action when triggered (such as sending a message, navigating to a tiddler, or changing the value of a tiddler). Action widgets are used in association with other widgets that trigger those actions (for example, the ButtonWidget).
The following action widgets are provided:
- action-createtiddler
- action-deletefield
- action-deletetiddler
- action-listops
- action-navigate
- action-sendmessage
- action-setfield
There are two ways to use action widgets:
- Using the
actionsattribute of the triggering widget (this is the preferred way) - Embedding the actions within the triggering widget (an older technique that is now deprecated)
Assigning action widgets with the actions attribute
The action widgets are passed as a string to the actions attribute of the triggering widget. Usually, it is more convenient to use a macro to assign the action widgets to a variable. For example, here is a button that triggers two actions of sending different messages:
\define my-actions()
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-home"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-full-screen"/>
\end
<$button actions=<<my-actions>>>
Click me!
</$button>Assigning action widgets by embedding
The action widgets need not be immediate children of their triggering widget, but they must be descendents of it. The actions are performed in sequence. Here is the above example rewritten to use embedding:
<$button>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-home"/>
<$action-sendmessage $message="tm-full-screen"/>
Click me!
</$button>The standard mechanisms in TiddlyWiki for creating Table-of-Contents are macros known collectively as "toc" macros (click on link to learn more about macros). They use Tagging as their means of creating relationships, so be sure to review the Tagging topic tiddler if tagging is a new concept for you.
A customisable table of contents can be added to the sidebar with the following steps:
- Create a tiddler called TableOfContents
- Give it the tag $:/tags/SideBar
- Set the text to
<div class="tc-table-of-contents"> <<toc-selective-expandable 'TableOfContents'>> </div> - Add a caption field with the text Contents
- Add a list-after field with the text $:/core/ui/SideBar/Open
Add entries to the table of contents by creating tiddlers tagged TableOfContents. An easy way is to choose new here from the tiddler toolbar of the TableOfContents tiddler. (if you don't see the "new here" button, click on the down arrow to see more menu options.)
To create child tiddlers (tiddlers that come below other tiddlers), tag them with the name of the parent tiddler.
Here's a macro that provides a Twitter Follow button for a particular username:
\define twitterFollowButton(username)
<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="//platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=$username$" style="width:300px; height:20px;"></iframe>
\endThe only change from the version published at https://dev.twitter.com/docs/follow-button is that new lines have been removed.
Note that the src URL is given without a protocol (ie "http" or "https"). It's done this way so that it works on sites whether they are hosted on a HTTP or HTTPS domain. If you want the Twitter button to work while using a TiddlyWiki offline on a "file://" URL, then you'll need to manually add the protocol. For example:
<iframe allowtransparency="true" frameborder="0" scrolling="no" src="https://platform.twitter.com/widgets/follow_button.html?screen_name=jermolene" style="width:300px; height:20px;"></iframe>| purpose | extend each input title with a prefix |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | S = a string of characters |
| output | the input, but with S added to the start of each title |
| purpose | extend each input title with a suffix |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | S = a string of characters |
| output | the input, but with S added to the end of each title |
As the structures within your TiddlyWiki documents get more complex it can be hard to keep the titles of tiddlers consistent. For example, should terms be defined in the plural or the singular? Camel case or separate words?
Recording a formal titling policy can help to reduce confusion. For example, the titling policies for this wiki are recorded in the Documentation Style Guide.
SystemTiddler Titles
A useful convention is to use the prefix $:/_ for any system tiddlers that you create to ensure that they are near the top of the system tiddler listing in the sidebar
| purpose | find which input title follows a specified one |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | T = one of those titles |
| output | the title that immediately follows T in the input |
If T is not present in the input, or is the last title there, then the output is empty.
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler. The Thursday tiddler shows a further example.
[list[Days of the Week]after[Monday]]
[list[Days of the Week]after[Sunday]]
Alerts are displayed as yellow boxes overlaying the main TiddlyWiki window. Each one corresponds to a tiddler with the tag $:/tags/Alert. Clicking the delete icon on an alert deletes the corresponding tiddler.
Here's a demo .
Alert tiddlers should have the following fields:
| Field | Description |
|---|---|
| title | By default, alert titles have the prefix $:/temp/alerts/ |
| text | The text of the alert message |
| modified | Date of the alert (used for ordering the alerts on screen) |
| component | Component name associated with the alert |
| tags | Must include $:/tags/Alert |
| purpose | find all titles of a fundamental category |
|---|---|
| input | ignored, unless the parameter is empty |
| parameter | zero or more categories |
| output | the titles that belong to all the specified categories |
The parameter specifies zero or more fundamental categories using the following syntax:
| Category | Members | Sorted |
|---|---|---|
current | just the current tiddler | – |
missing | all non-existent tiddlers to which there is at least one hard link | no |
orphans | all tiddlers to which there are no hard links | by title |
shadows | all the shadow tiddlers that exist, including any that have been overridden with non-shadow tiddlers | no |
tags | all the tags in use on non-shadow tiddlers | no |
tiddlers | all the non-shadow tiddlers that exist | no |
If the parameter specifies more than one category, they are processed from left to right. The overall output is initially empty, and each category's output is dominantly appended to it in turn. Unrecognised categories contribute nothing to the output.
As a special case, if the parameter is empty, the output is simply a copy of the input. This can be useful when the parameter is soft.
The is operator is similar, but its scope is restricted to its input.
[all[shadows]]
[all[shadows+tiddlers]]
[all[tiddlers+shadows]]
[all[orphans+missing+current]]
[all[current]]
[all[current]tag[Operator Examples]]
[all[current]tag[Recipes]]
Monday Thursday +[all[]]
| purpose | discard all items except those after the marker |
|---|---|
| input | a list of items |
| suffix | specifying a suffix ('include') will include the marker in the output |
| parameter | marker = the list item to be used as a marker |
| output | all items after the marker |
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler.
[list[Days of the Week]] +[allafter[Wednesday]]
[list[Days of the Week]] +[allafter:include[Wednesday]]
| purpose | discard all items except those before the marker |
|---|---|
| input | a list of items |
| suffix | specifying a suffix ('include') will include the marker in the output |
| parameter | marker = the list item to be used as a marker |
| output | all items before the marker |
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler.
[list[Days of the Week]allbefore[Wednesday]]
[list[Days of the Week]allbefore:include[Wednesday]]
Current tiddlers:
Here are the details of the alpha releases of TiddlyWiki5. See TiddlyWiki5 Versioning for details of how releases are named.
Release 5.0.1-alpha
Released 6th December 2013 at 17:53
See GitHub for detailed change history of this release
Improvements
- Changes to the importing process to enable a smoother Upgrading process
- Ignores attempts to import plugins that are older than currently installed plugins
- System tiddlers are now imported as usual
- If
$:/themeisn't defined or refers to a missing tiddler, then fallback through Snow White to Vanilla. This means thatempty.htmlnow defaults to Snow White - Added support for Block Quotes in WikiText
- Contributed by StephanHradek (@Skeeve on GitHub)
Bug fixes
- Fixed bug that was preventing
$:/tags/PageControlstiddlers from being reordered
Internal changes
- Changed the TiddlyWiki5 Versioning policy
- Beta releases will be
5.0.x-betaand the final release will be5.1.x
- Beta releases will be
The Amazon Web Services Plugin provides several tools for working with Amazon Web Services:
- Templates for saving a TiddlyWiki as a single JavaScript file in a ZIP file that can be executed as an AWS Lambda function. In this form, TiddlyWiki is a self contained single file containing both code and data, just like the standalone HTML file configuration
- Commands that can be used to interact with AWS services, under both the Node.js and Lambda configurations of TiddlyWiki
| purpose | append a range of items from an array to the list |
|---|---|
| input | a list of items |
| suffix | an integer N, defaulting to all |
| parameter | list = the array of items to be appended to the tail of the list |
| output | a list with items appended from the head of the operand array |
! output | a list with items appended from the tail of the operand array |
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler.
[list[Days of the Week]append[Tomorrow]]
[list[Days of the Week]append[Yesterday Today Tomorrow]]
- Append the first 4 short days of the week to our list
[list[Days of the Week]append:4{Days of the Week!!short}]
Here are some recent articles written about TiddlyWiki. Submit new articles via GitHub, Twitter or by posting in the TiddlyWiki Groups.
"A free, open source wiki revisited" by Mark Gibbs, NetworkWorld
Interesting article giving the perspective of someone who has been away from TiddlyWiki for a few years:
Way back in the mists of time (actually, January 2009) I wrote about a really cool tool called TiddlyWiki, a “non-linear personal web notebook”. Fast forward to today and I just had an out of body experience: Completely by accident I found a TiddlyWiki that I started when I wrote that piece and it still works!
Finding code that works flawlessly after just two or three years is magical enough but after seven years?! And given that TiddlyWiki is written as a single page Web application and considering how different browsers are now than they were in 2009, the fact that the old version of TiddlyWiki still works is not short of miraculous.
"Setting Up a Personal TiddlyWiki Server on OS X" by Kris Johnson
Detailed description of setting up TiddlyWiki on Node.js on OS X.
http://undefinedvalue.com/2015/04/02/setting-personal-tiddlywiki-server-os-x
For a new job, I decided to set up a personal wiki to keep notes. I wanted to keep it simple, meeting these requirements:
- All the data is in a Dropbox folder (so it can be automatically synced between machines)
- It must support Markdown syntax
After looking at the options, I settled on TiddlyWiki. I've used "classic TiddlyWiki" before, and liked its simplicity, but I was always a little annoyed with the weird steps you have to go through to save changes. The new version of TiddlyWiki includes support for running it as a real HTTP server, so you can use it just like an online wiki.
But it took me a couple of hours to figure out how to set that up. The TiddlyWiki documentation is not clear ("not clear" is a euphemistic way of saying "terrible"). So, I've written up these instructions in the hope it will spare somebody else all the frustration I had.
"TiddlyWiki" by Sander de Boer
Dutch blog post about TiddlyWiki
https://breinbout.wordpress.com/2014/11/26/tiddlywiki/
I'm allergic to websites that are highly dependent on JavaScript. I think that JavaScript has many useful applications to add functionality to a site, but content needs to be visible if JavaScript is switched off. I use the NoScript extension for Firefox and surf with pleasure over the Internet without spontaneous things happen that I do not give permission. I love JavaScript on a short leash. More crazier maybe I'm so excited about TiddlyWiki.
(Translation from Dutch by Google Translate)
"Notizen mit TiddlyWiki systemübergreifend nutzen" by Michael Sonntag
A quick guide to using TiddlyWiki (written in German)
http://michaelsonntag.net/notizen-mit-tiddlywiki-systemuebergreifend-nutzen
Those using multiple different computer platforms (if only PC and Android) knows for certain: You would like to sync notes across computers and thereby be independent of any apps or services. I am concerned at any rate so and so I am constantly looking for the perfect solution.
With TiddlyWiki I found it mostly. As the name suggests, it TiddlyWiki is a Wikisystem. In contrast to all other wikis, TiddlyWiki is a single HTML file that runs in the browser and thus can be used on all modern operating systems. And because there is only one file, it can be very easily via the well-known cloud services (Dropbox, Google Drive, ownCloud) or synchronized with FTP or used on a USB stick.
(Translation from German by Google Translate)
"TiddlyWiki 5 im Betatest" by besim
Reaction to TiddlyWiki5 from the translator of the German edition of TiddlyWikiClassic.
http://blog.netplanet.org/2014/01/03/tiddlywiki-5-im-betatest/
There is little software that can still inspire me so even after years, as on the first day. This includes TiddlyWiki, the "pocket-wiki". The latter is because the Wiki completely fits into an HTML file, and this HTML file brings everything - JavaScript program logic, CSS appearance and the entire Wiki content as stored records. So a TiddlyWiki file is then sometimes happy times some megabytes in size, but just has the unbeatable advantage that it works just as fast file created locally in a variety of browsers.
(Translation from German by Google Translate)
- [attr]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr.
- [attr="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr and whose value is exactly "value".
- [attr~="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr whose value is a whitespace-separated list of words, one of which is exactly "value".
- [attr|="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr. Its value can be exactly “value” or can begin with “value” immediately followed by “-” (U+002D). It can be used for language subcode matches.
- [attr^="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr and whose first value is prefixed by "value".
- [attr$="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr and whose last value is suffixed by "value".
- [attr*="value"]
- Represents an element with an attribute name of attr and whose value contains at least one occurrence of string "value" as substring.
- [attr "operator value" i]
- Adding an i (or I) before the closing bracket causes the value to be compared case-insensitively (for characters within the ASCII range).
Learn more at: Attribute selectors - CSS or CSS-Specification
Audio files can be incorporated into TiddlyWiki in a very similar way to images.
Embedded Audio
Small audio files can be embedded directly within TiddlyWiki. Embedding isn't suitable for large files (over a few hundred kilobytes) because it increases the size of the TiddlyWiki file.
For example, the tiddler TiddlyWiki.mp3 contains an MP3 recording of the word "TiddlyWiki". If you visit that tiddler, you should see an audio player that will play back the recording.
You can also transclude audio files. For example:
{{TiddlyWiki.mp3}}That renders as:
External Audio
External audio tiddlers use the _canonical_uri field to point to an external audio file/stream, and have their text field blocked. This reduces their size considerably, but still allows for playback.
For example, the tiddler Caruso - Ave Maria points to an online audio recording hosted on http://archive.org:
{{Caruso - Ave Maria}}That renders as:
If there is a SaverModule available that supports it, TiddlyWiki will automatically trigger a save of the current document on clicking ok or delete when editing a tiddler.
You should see a yellow notification at the top right of the window to confirm that an automatic save has taken place.
Automatic saving can be enabled or disabled through the Settings tab of the control panel . Behind the scenes, it is controlled through the configuration tiddler $:/config/AutoSave, which must have the value yes to enable automatic saving.
| purpose | find the titles that link to each input title |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | none |
| output | any non-system titles that contain hard links to the input titles |
Each input title is processed in turn. The corresponding tiddler's list of backlinks is generated, sorted alphabetically by title, and then dominantly appended to the operator's overall output.
[[HelloThere]backlinks[]]
[all[current]backlinks[]]
From Beaker Browser website:
Beaker is a Peer-to-Peer Web Browser, made for users to run applications independently of hosts. Using P2P Hypermedia, Beaker separates frontend apps from backend services, so that users are completely in control of their software and data. Read more.
Beaker is a fork of the open source Chromium browser (which is the core engine powering Google's Chrome browser).
Beaker adds the ability to host sites within the browser, and browse to those sites via the dat:// protocol. The extraordinary thing is that if you are running Beaker then you can also browse to sites hosted by other users, without needing any server in between.
Further, you can opt to host a site belonging to somebody else, forming part of a Bittorrent-like swarm of peers serving the content to other browsers. You can also fork a site, making your own copy that you can change as you need.
The main disadvantage is that mainstream browsers cannot use dat:// sites.
Most of the magic is accomplished by the underlying Dat protocol.
New in: 5.1.14 TiddlyWiki incorporates a special saver module permitting changes to be saved directly from Beaker browser. See Saving on Beaker Browser for instructions.
| purpose | find which input title precedes a specified one |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | T = one of those titles |
| output | the title that immediately precedes T in the input |
If T is not present in the input, or is the first title there, then the output is empty.
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler. The Thursday tiddler shows a further example.
[list[Days of the Week]before[Saturday]]
[list[Days of the Week]before[Monday]]
Here are the details of the beta releases of TiddlyWiki5. See TiddlyWiki5 Versioning for details of how releases are named.
Release 5.0.18-beta
Released 17th September 2014 at 21:10
See GitHub for detailed change history of this release
This is a minor release prior to the full release of TiddlyWiki on September 20th. The documentation has been cleaned up and improved (with more improvements to come).
File Layout of tiddlywiki.com
The layout of files on tiddlywiki.com has been adjusted to make it more logical. See the ticket for a discussion. You can see the source files that make up tiddlywiki.com at https://github.com/Jermolene/jermolene.github.com
Hackability Improvements
- Added first iteration of a
list-linksmacro (further improvements are planned) - Added support for importing
.markdownand.mdfiles - Extended
timelinemacro to support a subfilter
Bug Fixes
- Fixed problem with digits being classified as lower case letters for wiki link matching
- Fixed crash when sorting missing tiddlers by fields other than title
- Fixed problem with handling
.jpegfile extensions - Fixed problem with RadioWidget and missing tiddlers
- Fixed problem with dragging a partially selected link
Contributors
@Jermolene would like to thank the contributors to this release who have generously given their time to help improve TiddlyWiki:
There are two ways to produce HTML block quotes in TiddlyWiki5, one for content spread across multiple lines, and one for single line content.
Multi-line Block Quotes
The syntax for multi-line block quotes () is:
<<<
This is a block quoted paragraph
written in English
<<<
That renders as:
This is a block quoted paragraph written in English
... and the underlying HTML is:
<blockquote class="tc-quote"><p>This is a block quoted paragraph written in English </p></blockquote>
Citation
A citation can be added to the quote like this:
<<<
Computers are like a bicycle for our minds
<<< Steve Jobs
That renders as:
Computers are like a bicycle for our minds
Steve Jobs
... and the underlying HTML is:
<blockquote class="tc-quote"><p>Computers are like a bicycle for our minds </p><cite>Steve Jobs</cite></blockquote>
CSS Classes
CSS classes can be added to a block quote:
<<<.myClass.another-class
Operating systems are like a brick wall for our minds
<<< Nobody
That renders as:
Operating systems are like a brick wall for our minds
Nobody
... and the underlying HTML is:
<blockquote class="tc-quote myClass another-class"><p>Operating systems are like a brick wall for our minds </p><cite>Nobody</cite></blockquote>
The core includes the class tc-big-quote that renders block quotes with outsize double quotes:
<<<.tc-big-quote
A dramatic quote
<<< Somebody Important
That renders as:
A dramatic quote
Somebody Important
... and the underlying HTML is:
<blockquote class="tc-quote tc-big-quote"><p>A dramatic quote </p><cite>Somebody Important</cite></blockquote>
Single-line Block Quotes
The single-line syntax for block quotes is actually an extension of the syntax for Lists in WikiText. For example:
> Quoted text
> Another line of quoted text
That renders as:
Quoted text
Another line of quoted text
... and the underlying HTML is:
<blockquote><p>Quoted text</p><p>Another line of quoted text</p></blockquote>
You can also nest quotes like this:
> A top quote
>> A subquote
> Another top quoteWhich renders as:
A top quote
A subquote
Another top quote
You can also mix block quotes with other list items. For example:
* List One
** List Two
**> A quote
**> Another quote
* List Three
That renders as:
- List One
- List Two
A quote
Another quote
- List Two
- List Three
... and the underlying HTML is:
<ul><li>List One<ul><li>List Two<blockquote><p>A quote</p><p>Another quote</p></blockquote></li></ul></li><li>List Three</li></ul>
The Blog edition of TiddlyWiki contains tools to help publish static HTML blogs written in TiddlyWiki. It is currently designed for use under Node.js.
While documentation is being prepared, see https://github.com/Jermolene-blog/blog for an example of use.
TiddlyWiki is designed to work with HTML5-compatible browsers.
The following table summarises the browser versions that are known to work with TiddlyWiki
| Browser | Status |
|---|---|
| Internet Explorer | Version 10 and above |
| Chrome | All recent versions |
| Firefox | All recent versions |
| Firefox for Android | All recent versions |
| Safari | Version 6 and above |
Introduction
The browse widget displays an HTML file browser button that allows the user to choose one or more files to import. It sends a WidgetMessage: tm-import-tiddlers carrying a JSON representation of the tiddlers imported from the files up through its parents. This message is usually handled by the NavigatorWidget which adds the tiddlers to the store and updates the story to display them.
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$browse> widget is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| multiple | Set to "multiple" to select multiple file upload |
| deserializer | New in: 5.1.15 Optional name of deserializer to be used (by default the deserializer is derived from the file extension or type) |
| tooltip | Optional tooltip text |
| message | Optional override of widget message to be generated. The parameter for the message will be the JavaScript object event.target.files |
On iPhone/iPad choosing the multiple option will remove the ability to take photographs/videos directly into TiddlyWiki.
e.g.
<$browse>renders as:
BT (née British Telecom) is the UK's largest telecommunications company. In 2007, Osmosoft was acquired by BT. JeremyRuston subsequently left BT in 2011.
Build the specified build targets for the current wiki. If no build targets are specified then all available targets will be built.
--build <target> [<target> ...]Build targets are defined in the tiddlywiki.info file of a wiki folder.
See TiddlyWikiFolders for details of defining build targets.
TiddlyWiki5 can be used to build older 2.x.x versions of TiddlyWikiClassic from their constituent components. Doing so involves these features:
- The
tiddlywiki/classictoolsplugin, containing a deserializer module which allows tiddlers to be loaded from TiddlyWiki 2.x.x.recipefiles - The
stripcommentsformat for the ViewWidget, which strips single line JavaScript comments starting//# - The
stripTitlePrefix='yes'attribute of the FieldsWidget, which removes prefixes wrapped in curly braces from thetitleattribute- For example,
{tiddler}HelloTherewould be transformed toHelloThere
- For example,
Usage
TiddlyWikiClassic is built from the command line by running TiddlyWiki on Node.js. A typical usage would be:
node ../../tiddlywiki.js \
--verbose \
--load <path_to_recipe_file> \
--rendertiddler $:/core/templates/tiddlywiki2.template.html <path_to_write_index_file> text/plain \
|| exit 1| purpose | discard the last N input titles |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| parameter | N = an integer, defaulting to 1 |
| output | all but the last N input titles |
These examples make use of the Days of the Week tiddler.
[list[Days of the Week]butlast[]]
[list[Days of the Week]butlast[2]]
A B C D E F G H I J K L M +[butlast[7]]
Introduction
The button widget displays an HTML <button> element that can perform a combination of optional actions when clicked:
- Executing any ActionWidgets passed in the
actionsattribute - Executing any ActionWidgets that are immediate children of the button widget
- Execute any integrated actions:
- Navigate to a specified tiddler
- Dispatch a user defined widget message
- Trigger a user defined popup
- Assign new text to a specified tiddler
The integrated actions are provided as a shortcut for invoking common actions. The same functionality is available via ActionWidgets, with the exception of the support for highlighting selected popups.
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$button> widget is displayed within the button.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| actions | A string containing ActionWidgets to be triggered when the key combination is detected |
| to | The title of the tiddler to navigate to |
| message | The name of the widget message to send when the button is clicked |
| param | The optional parameter to the message |
| set | A TextReference to which a new value will be assigned |
| setTitle | A title to which a new value will be assigned, without TextReference. Gets preferred over state |
| setField | A field name to which the new value will be assigned, if the attribute stateTitle is present. Defaults to the text field |
| setIndex | An index to which the new value will be assigned, if the attribute stateTitle is present |
| setTo | The new value to assign to the TextReference identified in the set attribute or the text field / the field specified through setField / the index specified through setIndex of the title given through setTitle |
| selectedClass | An optional additional CSS class to be assigned if the popup is triggered or the tiddler specified in set already has the value specified in setTo |
| default | Default value if set tiddler is missing for testing against setTo to determine selectedClass |
| popup | Title of a state tiddler for a popup that is toggled when the button is clicked. See PopupMechanism for details |
| popupTitle | Title of a state tiddler for a popup that is toggled when the button is clicked. In difference to the popup attribute, no TextReference is used. See PopupMechanism for details |
| aria-label | Optional Accessibility label |
| tooltip | Optional tooltip |
| class | An optional CSS class name to be assigned to the HTML element |
| style | An optional CSS style attribute to be assigned to the HTML element |
| tag | An optional html tag to use instead of the default "button" |
| dragTiddler | An optional tiddler title making the button draggable and identifying the payload tiddler. See DraggableWidget for details |
| dragFilter | An optional filter making the button draggable and identifying the list of payload tiddlers. See DraggableWidget for details |
Note: In almost all other cases where a TextReference is used as a widget attribute, it will be placed between curly brackets, to transclude the value currently stored there. However, when we use a TextReference as the value of a button widget's set attribute, we are referencing the storage location itself, rather than the value stored there, so we do not use curly brackets there. Example: we could code a button widget that sets the caption field of TiddlerA to be the same as that of TiddlerB as:
<$button set="TiddlerA!!caption" setTo={{TiddlerB!!caption}} >
Press me!
</$button>Tip: Set class to tc-btn-invisible tc-tiddlylink to have a button look like an internal link.
CSS is a standard plain-text format used for defining the presentational style of the various elements on a web page.
The changecount macro returns the number of times the current tiddler has been created, stored or deleted during the current TiddlyWiki session.
If a tiddler is deleted and subsequently recreated, its changecount will go up by two.
Parameters
(none)
<<changecount>>The value will increase if you edit this tiddler and store it again, even without making any changes to its content.
To access the changecount of a different tiddler, use a $tiddler widget:
<$tiddler tiddler="Draft of 'New Tiddler'">
<<changecount>>
</$tiddler>The value shown will increase whenever you create, store or delete New Tiddler.
Introduction
This release resolves a number of inconsistencies with the way that filters are handled. The changes mean that existing filters may need to be updated - particularly those that must deal with missing or shadow tiddlers.
Changes to is and addition of all
Most filter operators act by choosing some or all of their source titles to pass through or re-order. Those that add new entries that are not drawn from the source list are referred to as selectors. Prior to 5.0.9-beta, a few filter operators were inconsistent in whether they filtered from the source list or selected new entries into it.
The specific changes are:
- The is operator now always strictly filters from the currently selected list of tiddlers
- The new all operator acts as a selector by replacing the current list with a combination of tiddlers from specific sources:
- current for the current tiddler
- missing for all missing tiddlers
- orphans for all orphan tiddlers
- shadows for all shadow tiddlers
- tiddlers for all non-shadow tiddlers (including both system and non-system tiddlers)
The sources for the all operator can be combined with the + character. For example, [all[shadows+tiddlers]] returns all shadow tiddlers and all ordinary tiddlers.
Previously, it was common to have [is[shadow]] at the start of a filter string to select all the shadow tiddlers. In 5.0.9 and above, this will not return all the shadow tiddlers, but instead just those ordinary tiddlers that are also shadow tiddlers (by virtue of having overridden one). The resolution is to use the new all operator. For example, consider this filter from 5.0.8:
[is[shadow]!has[draft.of]tag[$:/tags/AdvancedSearch]] [!is[shadow]!has[draft.of]tag[$:/tags/AdvancedSearch]] +[tag[$:/tags/AdvancedSearch]]In 5.0.9, that filter has been changed to:
[all[shadows+tiddlers]tag[$:/tags/AdvancedSearch]!has[draft.of]]Note how the all operator allows operations to be performed on tiddlers from combinations of sources.
Changes to [is[current]]
One result of the changes is that [is[current]] now strictly filters from the source tiddlers; so, if the current tiddler is a missing tiddler not in the source list, then [is[current]] will return an empty list.
The solution is generally to use [all[current]] instead. It doesn't read as well, but has the required behaviour of returning just the current tiddler, regardless of whether it is in the source tiddlers.
Changes to title and field
There are minor changes to the way that the title and field operators work.
The title operator is a selector: it returns the specified title regardless of whether it is in the current source. title is used as the default operator if none is specified
The field operator is a filter: it only returns a subset of the source tiddlers. field is used as the default operator if the supplied operator is not defined (the supplied operator is passed as the suffix to the field operator, so [description[Missing]] is equivalent to [field:description[Missing]]).
Introduction
The checkbox widget displays an HTML <input type="checkbox"> element that is dynamically bound to either:
- the presence or absence of a specified tag on a specified tiddler
- the value of a specified field of a specified tiddler
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$checkbox> widget is displayed within an HTML <label> element immediately after the checkbox itself. This means that clicking on the content will toggle the checkbox.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| tiddler | Title of the tiddler to manipulate (defaults to the current tiddler) |
| tag | The name of the tag to which the checkbox is bound |
| invertTag | When set to yes, flips the tag binding logic so that the absence of the tag causes the checkbox to be checked |
| field | The name of the field to which the checkbox is bound |
| index | New in: 5.1.14 The index of the tiddler, a DataTiddler, to which the checkbox is bound |
| checked | The value of the field corresponding to the checkbox being checked |
| unchecked | The value of the field corresponding to the checkbox being unchecked |
| default | The default value to use if the field is not defined |
| class | The class that will be assigned to the label element |
| actions | New in: 5.1.14 A string containing ActionWidgets to be triggered when the checkbox is checked |
| uncheckactions | New in: 5.1.16 A string containing ActionWidgets to be triggered when the checkbox is unchecked |
Tag Mode
Using the checkbox widget in tag mode requires the tag attribute to specify the name of the tag. The tiddler attribute specifies the tiddler to target, defaulting to the current tiddler if not present.
This example creates a checkbox that flips the done tag on the current tiddler:
<$checkbox tag="done"> Is it done?</$checkbox>That renders as:
Field Mode
Using the checkbox widget in field mode requires the field attribute to specify the name of the field. The checked and unchecked attributes specify the values to be assigned to the field to correspond to its checked and unchecked states respectively. The default attribute is used as a fallback value if the field is not defined.
This example creates a checkbox that is checked if the field status is equal to open and unchecked if the field is equal to closed. If the field is undefined then it defaults to closed, meaning that the checkbox will be unchecked if the status field is missing.
<$checkbox field="status" checked="open" unchecked="closed" default="closed"> Is it open?</$checkbox><br>''status:'' {{!!status}}That renders as:
status:
Index Mode
To use the checkbox widget in index mode set the index attribute to the index of a DataTiddler. The checked and unchecked attributes specify the values to be assigned to the index and correspond to its checked and unchecked states respectively. The default attribute is used as a fallback value if the index is undefined.
The example below creates a checkbox that is checked if the index by the name of this tiddler in the tiddler ExampleData is equal to selected and unchecked if the index is an empty string. If the index is undefined then it defaults to an empty string, meaning the checkbox will be unchecked if the index is missing.
<$checkbox tiddler="ExampleData" index=<<currentTiddler>> checked="selected" unchecked="" default=""> Selected?</$checkbox>That renders as:
You can use triple backticks ``` to mark code blocks ():
``` This will be monospaced ```
Renders as:
This will be monospacedTo be interpreted correctly, the three backticks need to be at the start of the line and immediately followed by a line-break.
Be aware that any preceding paragraph content should be properly terminated with a double line break, too. So, this example is wrong:
This is an ordinary paragraph ``` This will be monospaced ```
The correct version is:
This is an ordinary paragraph ``` This will be monospaced ```
Note that some keyboard layouts treat the backtick as a dead key, making it hard to type. The trick is to type three backticks followed by a space. Alternatively, type all six backticks in one go, then a space, and then move the cursor back three characters to type or paste the content.
Introduction
The codeblock widget renders text in <pre> and <code> blocks, causing it to be
displayed monospace. A language may optionally be specified using the
language attribute, however syntax highlighting will only be used if the
Highlight Plugin is installed.
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$codeblock> widget is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| code | Contents of the block to render as code |
| language | Programming language for syntax highlighting |
The language attribute accepts either:
- a Highlight.js language code (see https://highlightjs.org/static/demo/ for a list)
- a MIME type (eg,
text/htmlorimage/svg+xml)
Examples
Here is an example embedding the contents of a tiddler as a code block.
<$codeblock code={{$:/editions/tw5.com/macro-examples/say-hi}} />That renders as:
\define sayhi(name:"Bugs Bunny" address:"Rabbit Hole Hill")
Hi, I'm $name$ and I live in $address$.
\end
A codeblock may also specify a language.
<$codeblock code="SELECT * FROM users WHERE deleted = false" language="sql" />That renders as:
SELECT * FROM users WHERE deleted = falseThe CodeMirror plugin adds a sophisticated web-based editor to TiddlyWiki.
See https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/codemirror for a demo.
The colour (or color) macro returns the CSS value of one the colours in the current palette.
If no such entry exists in the current palette, the vanilla palette is used instead.
Parameters
- name
- The name of the palette entry, e.g.
page-background
<<colour code-border>><<colour foreground>><<colour page-background>><<colour sidebar-tab-background>><<colour tag-foreground>>Colour: <$edit-text tiddler='$:/_MyColour' tag='input' placeholder='(unset)' default=''/>
---
<$macrocall $name='colour-picker' actions="
<$action-setfield $tiddler='$:/_MyColour' $value=<<colour-picker-value>>/>
"/>A colour palette is a data tiddler that supplies a CSS colour value, such as yellow or #fe0, for each of several colour names, like this:
page-background: #fe0
table-border: #ccc
...Several palettes form part of the core. The system tiddler $:/palette always contains the title of the currently selected palette tiddler. You can change a palette using the palette button, found on the "Tools" tab in the sidebar.
To retrieve the value of a named colour from the current palette, e.g. for use in a stylesheet tiddler, use the colour macro:
<<colour page-background>>Palette tiddlers should have the following fields:
| Name | Value |
|---|---|
| title | Typically starting with $:/ |
| type | application/x-tiddler-dictionary |
| tags | $:/tags/Palette |
| name | Displayed in the palette browser |
| description | Displayed in the palette browser |
| text | name: value colour definitions |
CSV is a standard plain-text format for storing a table of data.
Each row of the table is called a record and occupies one line.
The columns are called fields. Each field of a row is separated from the next by a comma, and is often delimited by quotation marks.
The csvtiddlers macro returns tiddler content in this format.
A command is one of the following words, written with a -- prefix and used as a command-line option under Node.js, indicating which action is desired. See Using TiddlyWiki on Node.js for details of how to use them.
| purpose | select the titles of all the Node.js commands |
|---|---|
| input | ignored |
| parameter | none |
| output | the command words that can be given to TiddlyWiki on Node.js |
Here we gather the latest and most useful material from the TiddlyWiki community.
The latest news, articles, resources and examples.
"Font Awesome 5 Free SVGs for TiddlyWiki" by morosanuae
The Font Awesome 5 Free SVG images collection converted to tiddlers that you can easily import (drag'n'drop) in your wiki.
TiddlyDrive Add-on for Google Drive by Joshua Stubbs
An add-on for Google Drive that allows TiddlyWiki files stored there to be opened and saved directly
To find out how to add it to your account, go to the project's info page: https://lordratte.gitlab.io/tiddlydrive/#installation-guide
I made an app that lets one edit TiddlyWiki files saved in your Google drive and then saving them back automagically. The page is here https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/tiddly-drive/oaphhjhbbabdjnpjpiliepphpmnioolo but I think you need to add it from the Google Drive web interface.
I even added an optional ability to save with ctrl + s hotkeys.
Joshua's launch post
Json Mangler plugin by Joshua Fontany
Extend tiddlywiki to parse complex ("nested") json data tiddlers.
Json Mangler introduces a new path syntax for indexes of json data tiddlers , and includes many supporting tools, filters, widgets, etc.
Example Wiki: https://joshuafontany.github.io/TW5-JsonManglerPlugin/
Source: https://github.com/joshuafontany/TW5-JsonManglerPlugin
Disqus comments plugin by bimlas
Use this plugin to give your visitors the opportunity to comment on your tiddlers without changing the wiki itself.
Disqus is a networked community platform used by hundreds of thousands of sites all over the web. With Disqus, your website gains a feature-rich comment system complete with social network integration, advanced administration and moderation options, and other extensive community functions.
Locator plugin by bimlas
For those who use many tags or store many different topics in a common wiki the Locator plugin is a table of contents widget and an enhanced search engine that gives you the opportunity to filter results by related tags. Unlike table of contents, standard search and list of tags, this plugin offers these features in an organic, collaborative way.
Kin filter operator by bimlas
The purpose of the kin operator with examples:
- Finds related tags, related tiddlers in any depth
- Finds out where base tiddler originates and what other elements originate from it
- Finds the ancestors and successors of a family member
- Finds the "leaves" of the branch of the base tiddler in a tree-like structure (where the base tiddler is a leaf)
- Finds the super- and subsets / groups of a mathematical set (where the base tiddler is a set)
"TiddlyWiki5^2 documenting while learning TiddlyWiki5" by Iannis Zannos
A wealth of hints, tips and notes about using TiddlyWiki on Node.js:
TiddlyWiki is different from other wikis because of its principle of dynamically customizeable "storyline" based on tiddlers as basic units of information. That is, the user "composes" their own version of the webpage by clicking on tiddler links, which add tiddlers to the page in order to compose a storyline.
The Node.js implementation in TiddlyWiki5 adds all the advantages of flat-file markup language based type of site. This makes TiddlyWiki an excellent alternative to flat-file based CMS/webpage/blog authoring systems for the web.
Also very cool is the treatment of tags as menus everywhere.
http://larigot.avarts.ionio.gr/users/iani/wikis/tw5square.html
Also available on GitHub (download and save index.html and open it in your browser).
Code styles and auto format settings for IDEs
Implementation of TiddlyWiki Coding Style Guidelines for different IDEs.
It's a frequent use case in TiddlyWiki that you will want to put the results of variables together with various bits of strings of text. This process in some programming languages is often referred to as "concatenating" text.
You might, for instance want to set up a template for your customer database, where links will automatically refer to additional contact information about your customer. Inside your tiddler, you might try something like this:
| ⚠ Warning: Don't do it this way! | [[Additional Info|<<currentTiddler>>-Contact]] |
But that won't work. If you try this, the link will be interpreted very literally, and will attempt to take you to:
<<currentTiddler>>-ContactThe solution is to use a macro to put the rendered value of <<currentTiddler>> together with the bit of additional text, -Contact.
Create a macro at the top of the tiddler like this:
\define linkup(link) [[Additional Info|$link$-Contact]]You might be tempted to invoke the new macro like this:
| ⚠ Warning: Don't do it this way! | <<linkup <<currentTiddler>> >> |
But if you do, you will find that <<currentTiddler>> doesn't get rendered, but instead gets passed literally.
Instead, you could use the MacroCallWidget widget, like this:
<$macrocall $name="linkup" link=<<currentTiddler>> />In this case, we passed the value of a variable directly to our macro. This is often a general way to go about this task. If you wanted to create more links based on other variables you could re-use the macro for each situation.
If, as in this case, the only variable you are using is currentTiddler then you could write a simple macro, like this:
\define linkup() [[Additional Info|$(currentTiddler)$-Contact]]Notice that in this case we don't pass an argument. Instead, we reference the variable using the special syntax $(variable)$. Since we don't pass an argument, we can invoke it without the <$macrocall> widget more simply, like this:
<<linkup>>
These are the concepts underlying TiddlyWiki. Understanding how these ideas fit together is the key to getting the most from TiddlyWiki.
- Commands
- ColourPalettes
- Current Tiddler
- DataTiddlers
- Date Fields
- DefaultTiddlers
- DictionaryTiddlers
- ExternalImages
- Filters
- Hard and Soft Links
- JSONTiddlers
- Keyboard Shortcut Tiddler
- Macros
- Messages
- Modules
- PermaLinks
- Pragma
- ShadowTiddlers
- Story River
- SystemTags
- SystemTiddlers
- TemplateTiddlers
- TextReference
- TiddlerFields
- TiddlerLinks
- Tiddlers
- TiddlyWiki
- TiddlyWiki5
- Title List
- Title Selection
- Transclusion
- Wiki
- WikiText
- Tagging
- Plugins
- Variables
- Widgets
You can configure TiddlyWiki to start up using whatever individual or group of tiddlers you want using the default tiddlers mechanism.
In the control panel under the info tab is an input field labeled "Choose which tiddlers are displayed at startup". You can list whatever tiddlers you want to open at startup. Use double square brackets for titles containing spaces. For example:
FirstTiddler
SecondTiddler
[[Third Tiddler]]You can also use filter expressions to open more than one tiddler. For example:
[tag[HelloThere]]will open all tiddlers tagged as .
You can also use this technique to preserve open tiddlers at startup
The configuration tiddler $:/config/TiddlerInfo/Default contains the title of the tiddler containing the default tiddler info tab.
The default value is $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tools corresponding to the Tools tab. Other possible values are:
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tools
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/References
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Tagging
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/List
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Listed
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Fields
- $:/core/ui/TiddlerInfo/Advanced
- $:/editions/tw5.com/TiddlerInfo/Sources
| purpose | filter the input by searching list fields for a value |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| suffix | F = the name of a field |
| parameter | S = a possible value to be found in list field F |
| output | those input tiddlers in which the list field F contains the value S |
! output | those input tiddlers in which the list field F does not contain the value S |
[[$:/StoryList]contains[HelloThere]]
This is an example tiddler. See Table-of-Contents Macros (Examples).
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Used in Internet protocols to indicate the type that should be used to interpret the content of a web resource.
In TiddlyWiki, the type field gives the content type to apply to the main text field.
List of Common Content Types
| Group | Type | Content of type field |
|---|---|---|
| Developer | Data dictionary | application/x-tiddler-dictionary |
| JavaScript code | application/javascript | |
| JSON data | application/json | |
| Static stylesheet | text/css | |
| Image | GIF image | image/gif |
| ICO format icon file | image/x-icon | |
| JPEG image | image/jpeg | |
| PDF image | application/pdf | |
| PNG image | image/png | |
| Structured Vector Graphics image | image/svg+xml | |
| Text | HTML markup | text/html |
| CSS stylesheet | text/css | |
| Comma-separated values | text/csv | |
| Plain text | text/plain | |
| TiddlyWiki 5 | text/vnd.tiddlywiki | |
| TiddlyWiki Classic | text/x-tiddlywiki |
The contrastcolour macro returns whichever of two given CSS colours is deemed to contrast best with another.
An example can be seen in the template tiddler for tag pills.
Parameters
- target
- The colour to contrast against (typically a background colour)
- fallbackTarget
- An alternative colour to contrast against. This is used when
targetis undefined or not a valid colour - colourA
- The first of the two colours to choose between
- colourB
- The second of the two colours to choose between
We welcome contributions to the code and documentation of TiddlyWiki in several ways:
- ReportingBugs
- Helping to improve our documentation
- Contributing to the code via GitHub
- See https://tiddlywiki.com/dev for more details
There are other ways to help TiddlyWiki too.
Contributor License Agreement
Like other OpenSource projects, TiddlyWiki5 needs a signed contributor license agreement from individual contributors. This is a legal agreement that allows contributors to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).
- For individuals use: licenses/CLA-individual
- For entities use: licenses/CLA-entity
How to sign the CLA
Create a GitHub pull request to add your name to cla-individual.md or cla-entity.md, with the date in the format (YYYY/MM/DD).
step by step
- Navigate to licenses/CLA-individual or licenses/CLA-entity according to whether you are signing as an individual or representative of an organisation
- Ensure that the "branch" dropdown at the top left is set to
tiddlywiki-com - Click the "edit" button at the top-right corner (clicking this button will fork the project so you can edit the file)
- Add your name at the bottom
- eg:
Jeremy Ruston, @Jermolene, 2011/11/22
- eg:
- Below the edit box for the CLA text you should see a box labelled Propose file change
- Enter a brief title to explain the change (eg, "Signing the CLA")
- Click the green button labelled Propose file change
- On the following screen, click the green button labelled Create pull request
The CLA documents used for this project were created using Harmony Project Templates. "HA-CLA-I-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-individual" and "HA-CLA-E-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-entity".
Remarks
If you do not own the copyright in the entire work of authorship:
In this case, please clearly state so and provide links and any additional information that clarify under which license the rest of the code is distributed.
Contributing to TiddlyWiki5
We welcome contributions to the code and documentation of TiddlyWiki in several ways:
- ReportingBugs
- Helping to improve our documentation
- Contributing to the code via GitHub
- See https://tiddlywiki.com/dev for more details
There are other ways to help TiddlyWiki too.
Contributor License Agreement
Like other OpenSource projects, TiddlyWiki5 needs a signed contributor license agreement from individual contributors. This is a legal agreement that allows contributors to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).
- For individuals use: licenses/CLA-individual
- For entities use: licenses/CLA-entity
How to sign the CLA
Create a GitHub pull request to add your name to cla-individual.md or cla-entity.md, with the date in the format (YYYY/MM/DD).
step by step
- Navigate to licenses/CLA-individual or licenses/CLA-entity according to whether you are signing as an individual or representative of an organisation
- Ensure that the "branch" dropdown at the top left is set to
tiddlywiki-com - Click the "edit" button at the top-right corner (clicking this button will fork the project so you can edit the file)
- Add your name at the bottom
- eg:
Jeremy Ruston, @Jermolene, 2011/11/22
- eg:
- Below the edit box for the CLA text you should see a box labelled Propose file change
- Enter a brief title to explain the change (eg, "Signing the CLA")
- Click the green button labelled Propose file change
- On the following screen, click the green button labelled Create pull request
The CLA documents used for this project were created using Harmony Project Templates. "HA-CLA-I-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-individual" and "HA-CLA-E-LIST Version 1.0" for "CLA-entity".
Remarks
If you do not own the copyright in the entire work of authorship:
In this case, please clearly state so and provide links and any additional information that clarify under which license the rest of the code is distributed.
This file was automatically generated by TiddlyWiki5
Like other OpenSource projects, TiddlyWiki5 needs a signed contributor license agreement from individual contributors. This is a legal agreement that allows contributors to assert that they own the copyright of their contribution, and that they agree to license it to the UnaMesa Association (the legal entity that owns TiddlyWiki on behalf of the community).
- For individuals use: licenses/CLA-individual
- For entities use: licenses/CLA-entity
The following individuals have generously given their time to contribute to the development of TiddlyWiki:
- Jeremy Ruston (@Jermolene)
- Dave Gifford (@giffmex)
- Bram Chen (@BramChen)
- Mario Pietsch (@pmario)
- Xavier Cazin (@xcazin)
- Eric Shulman (@ericshulman)
- Stephan Hradek (@Skeeve)
- BuggyJef (@buggyj)
- Nathan Cain (@natecain)
- Ton Gerner (@gernert)
- Devin Weaver (@sukima)
- João Bolila (@jbolila)
- David Johnston (@Brennall)
- David Jade (@davidjade)
- Bob Robison (@grayeul)
- @nameanyone
- Maurizio Pollio (@mpollio)
- Ogoshi Masayuki (@ogoshima)
- Chris Sugden (@csugden)
- @asampal
- Bow Yi Jang (@Eucaly)
- Mal Gamble (@malgam)
- Michael Fogleman (@mwfogleman)
- Daniel Barrett (@shendaras)
- Simon Baird (@simonbaird)
- James Anderson (@welford)
- Jon Lister (@jayfresh)
- @TheDiveO
- Danielo Rodríguez (@danielo515)
- @willover
- @slotik
- Irene Knapp (@IreneKnapp)
- Brian Shaver (@shakerlxxv)
- Tobi Beer (@tobibeer)
- Craig Cook (@BoyCook)
The copy-to-clipboard macro displays a button that copies specified text to the clipboard. A notification is displayed if the operation is successful; some browsers do not permit the operation.
Parameters
- src
- The text to be copied to the clipboard
- class
- Optional CSS classes to be assigned to the button (defaults to
tc-btn-invisible) - style
- Optional CSS styles to be assigned to the button
<<copy-to-clipboard "Mary had a little lamb">><$macrocall $name="copy-to-clipboard" src={{$:/SiteTitle}}/>You can copy an individual tiddler from one TiddlyWiki file to another by dragging a link to the tiddler from one browser window to another.
If you want to drag a link, first move it vertically, because horizontal movement is recognized by the browser as text selection.
The following macros are built into TiddlyWiki's core:
- changecount
- colour
- contrastcolour
- csvtiddlers
- datauri
- dumpvariables
- jsontiddlers
- lingo
- list-links
- makedatauri
- now
- qualify
- resolvepath
- Stylesheet Macros
- Table-of-Contents Macros
- tabs
- tag
- timeline
- version
- colour-picker
- copy-to-clipboard
- image-picker
- jsontiddler
- list-links-draggable
- list-tagged-draggable
- tag-picker
- tag-pill
- thumbnail
- tree
The following variables are built into TiddlyWiki's core:
- currentTiddler
- storyTiddler
- transclusion
- actionTiddler Variable
- modifier Variable
- namespace
- tv-history-list Variable
- tv-show-missing-links Variable
- tv-story-list Variable
- tv-tiddler-preview
The core will also use various configuration variables and macros if you define them:
| purpose | count the number of entries in a list |
|---|---|
| input | a selection of titles |
| output | a new list containing the number of items in the input list as a decimal string |
The number of the entries in the input list is counted and a decimal representation returned as a single string.
Introduction
The count widget displays the number of unique items in the output of specified filter expressions.
Content and Attributes
The content of the <$count> widget is ignored.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| filter | The filter expression to count |
Example
There are <$count filter="[tag[Examples]]"/> tiddlers tagged with ExamplesThat renders as:
There are 7 tiddlers tagged with Examples
To create a custom export format that exports tiddlers as their raw body text:
- Create a tiddler with the following fields:
- tags: $:/tags/Exporter
- description: Description of this exporter
- extension: Default file extension for this export format (including the dot; for example
.tid)
- Set the following content:
\define renderContent()
{{{ $(exportFilter)$ ||$:/core/templates/plain-text-tiddler}}}
\end
<<renderContent>>The variable exportFilter contains a filter defining which tiddlers should be exported.
By default, TiddlyWiki displays a blank screen while it is loading. You can add a special "splash screen" that is displayed while the wiki loads.
Larger TiddlyWiki files and those loaded over a slow network connection may take a little time to load. Once fully loaded, performance improves, because everything is now running entirely within the browser. Using a splash screen ensures people know the loading process is taking place, reducing the chance they will leave the page.
In order for the splash screen to be displayed before TiddlyWiki is initialised it is embedded as static HTML/CSS within the TiddlyWiki HTML file. This is done with the SystemTag: $:/tags/RawMarkupWikified/TopBody.
In order to remove the splash screen when the wiki has finished loading, the HTML should be wrapped in a container with the special class tc-remove-when-wiki-loaded. Any DOM elements with this class are automatically deleted by the core once the wiki has loaded.
Here's an example of a simple splash screen that just displays the text Loading. To use it, copy the text into a new tiddler, give it the type "text/plain" and the tag "$:/tags/RawMarkupWikified/TopBody":
<div class="tc-remove-when-wiki-loaded">
Loading...
</div>If the tiddler is given the WikiText type text/vnd.tiddlywiki then the contents are wikified as the file is saved, allowing transclusion etc. For example, here's an example that quotes the site title in the loading message. To use it, copy the text into a new tiddler, give it the type "text/vnd.tiddlywiki" and the tag "$:/tags/RawMarkupWikified/TopBody":
\rules only filteredtranscludeinline transcludeinline
<div class="tc-remove-when-wiki-loaded">
Please wait while {{$:/SiteTitle}} is loading
</div>The \rules directive is used to limit the wikitext syntax that is recognised to the two forms of inline transclusion. This avoids accidental wikification of tiddler content.
There is a more complex example splash screen using CSS animations and images configured in this wiki: see $:/SplashScreen
Creating tiddlers
You create a tiddler either by clicking the button in the sidebar, or by clicking on a link to a missing tiddler. Links to missing tiddlers are shown in blue italics.
See also:
Editing tiddlers
To edit an existing tiddler, click the button at the top right of the tiddler.
Draft mode
When you create a new tiddler or edit an existing one, the tiddler will go into draft mode. This presents a control panel for modifying the tiddler in various ways. It has several parts, from top to bottom:
- The title field - Use this to change the title of the tiddler
- The tag selector - Use this to add or remove tags. As you type a tag name in the box, a dropdown list will show you any existing tags that match. You can pick from this list or create a completely new tag. Then click the add button or hit the Enter key to add the tag to the tiddler. Each tag is shown as a coloured pill. Click the "×" on a pill to remove that tag
- The text area - Use this to edit the main content of the tiddler. Click the preview button ( / ) to see what your changes will look like
- The type selector - Use this when a tiddler needs to be displayed in a special way, such as an image. See ContentType for a list of the options. The default is
text/vnd.tiddlywiki, which means the tiddler contains WikiText - The field selector - Use this to add or remove fields on the tiddler. For example, if you are editing a tiddler that's being used to tag other tiddlers, you can add a ''list'' field to change the order in which those tiddlers will be listed
Save, cancel or delete
When you have finished editing, click a button at the top right of the tiddler:
- The ok button () stores your changes to this one tiddler and leaves draft mode. If your wiki is configured to AutoSave, your changes will be permanently saved. Otherwise they will only be stored temporarily in your web browser, and you will lose them if you close your TiddlyWiki page without first clicking the master save changes button () in the sidebar.
- The cancel button (