Very Basic Getting Started Stuff

[Jim]

Hi,
I have two questions. First, I want to change the titles of tiddlers
so that instead of just being bold, they are mrked up with HTML
heading mark-up, such as <h2>Title</h2>. What can I read that will
help me learn this? Secondly, where do I go to learn to put my file on
two computers and have everything synched up so that when I'm at work,
I can still see everything on my home computer?

Thanks.

Jim

[Alex Hough]

Jim,

edit the view template to change the markup of tiddler titles

 Dropbox is good for getting everything synched up

Alex

[1] http://www.dropbox.com

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[PMario]

Hi Jim,

you can have a look at your right sidebar. "More: Shadowed" tab. There
is a shadow tiddler named ViewTemplate.

If you open it, you'll see the second line.

<div class='title' macro='view title'></div>
change to:
<h2 class='title' macro='view title'></h2>

and save. It should do it.
I didn't check, if there are a side effects. May be plugins, that
search for "div class= .." will have a problem. So if some strange
behaviour starts, just think about your changes.

If you mess up the ViewTemplate tiddler. Just delete it and reload. It
will activate the shadow tiddler again.
-m

[Jim]

Hi,
If I download my file to two computers, will things keep synced up so
that I can see my updates from work and home?

Thanks.

Jim

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[HansBKK]

On Tuesday, January 24, 2012 9:53:40 AM UTC+7, Jim wrote:

Hi,
If I download my file to two computers, will things keep synced up so
that I can see my updates from work and home?

It's just a single HTML file, so whatever you usually do to keep your data files in sync will work if you only work on one instance at a time.

Before a work session - sync.
Do your work, then sync.

I do this with all my work data + portable apps, and work seamlessly between a dozen different machines running different OSs throughout the week.

I personally don't like storing my personal data on other people's infrastructure, so I've got Unison set up and use a central filer in a hub-and-spoke topology, but just going peer-to-peer between desktops in a mesh would work fine as well, as long as you keep things in sync frequently enough.

If you find you've made changes in multiple instances between sync'ing, you can always use a diff/merge tool to reconcile/consolidate your changes.

If you're on Windows I highly recommend Winmerge for that.

Hope that helps.

[passingby]

I consider dropbox to be the best option for synching any kind of file between computers. Once installed dropbox creates a folder on your file system which is always synched in the background. So you work on a file at office, save (within the dropbox folder) and shut down the computer, come home, boot up home computer and in a few seconds your dropbox folder on your home computer gets updated with the latest changes you made earlier at the office.

[HansBKK]

I'm sure Dropbox is fine for those who don't mind storing their data on third-party "cloud" services.

[Corey]

Hans,

If you don't want to use Dropbox, you can share your file through your
operating system's file sharing utilities or through a third party
network file-share application.

Either store it on one of your machine's or on a third machine that
you have access to.

Alternatively, you may be able to do the following (using Dropbox)
* Download and install TrueCrypt on both machines
* Create a TrueCrypt container file
* Store that container file on Dropbox
* Load that container on both machines, mounting it to, for example,
your D:\ drive.
* Place a TiddlyWiki in that folder.
* Make some modifications to it.
* Verify that the modifications sync properly to both machines.
* Back up your TrueCrypt container locally at whatever interval makes
you comfortable, preferably with an automated tool. This is primarily
to recover if the Dropbox application intentionally deleted this file
from your Dropbox folder, though this has never happened to my
knowledge.

Sure, you're still technically storing your data on the cloud - but if
you have a sufficiently secure TrueCrypt container file, that's not
going to be an issue. The bigger issue is that your key is still in
memory while you are away from your machine, if you don't unmount the
drive.

[HansBKK]

On Thursday, January 26, 2012 4:06:21 AM UTC+7, Corey wrote:

Hans,

If you don't want to use Dropbox, you can share your file through your operating system's file sharing utilities or through a third party network file-share application.

Thanks Corey, I'm not saying Dropbox can't be made to work securely, but I've personally never had any need for such a service, been using Unison for sync'ing for ten years or so, both peer-to-peer and with a central filer, very solid and flexible tool.