TiddlyWiki Cloud Tutorial for using on multiple devices

[Jimmy Sweeney]

Hello all,

I am brand new to TiddlyWiki and I am loving it so far. I got started a couple of days ago and have learned a ton about the potential uses and features.

The one issue I had with getting started was finding a way to sync my tiddlywiki file between devices (like an iPhone and a computer.) I started with Note Self but was having some issues with it and it was acting a bit buggy. I considered making my raspberry pi a server to host my file so that I could access it across devices (that's a bit above my pay grade - would still like to know how to do that though). 

Anyway, I realized was that I just needed a simple way to sync devices. There's all sorts of cool stuff in this community but I hard time finding other people who wanted to do the same thing that I was trying to do. Please, let me know if I am wrong though.

I finally settled on using TiddlyWiki Cloud. As simple as this route is, I still had to stumble my way through figuring it out. So I put together a quick tutorial on how to set it up so that you can work on your TiddlyWiki on any device. Let me know if anyone already has done this but I couldn't find it anywhere. Hopefully this will be useful to other new users.

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TiddlyWiki Cloud Tutorial for working on your TiddlyWiki on multiple devices.

1. Make sure you have a Dropbox account. (It's free). Follow the instructions on their site for setting up an account.
2. Go to https://tiddlywiki.com/
3. Click the big blue "Download Empty" box.
4. Find the empty.html file in your file explorer (probably in your downloads folder) and rename it to something like "mynewtiddlywiki.html".
5. Log in to Dropbox.
6. Upload the "mynewtiddlywiki.html" file into your dropbox.
7. Go to https://twcloud.github.io/
8. Click on the first option - tw5-dropbox.
9. Click on Full Dropbox Access - this probably prompts you allow to the app access - click on allow or yes or whatever.
10. You should then see your tiddlywiki file highlighted in yellow. Click on it.
11. This will open up your tiddlywiki file. You are ready to start making tiddlers!
12. Bookmark this page https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/ on your browser and your phone so that you can create and edit tiddlers on both devices. You can access your tiddlywiki file from anywhere, in fact, as long as you go here https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/ and log into your dropbox account.
13. I'd just reccommend backing up your tiddlywiki file every now and then on to a hard drive as well (just so that it doesn't only live on Dropbox.)

I find I can easily work on my tiddlywiki from my iPhone. You can also check out Quine if you have an iOS device. I believe you can have it set up to sync with your tiddlywiki file on dropbox. I haven't looked into that yet, myself.

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Cheers! And looking forward to being part of the community!

[Mat]

Jimmy - warmly welcome! And you're joining the Tiddly spirit right away, sharing stuff - wonderful!

@Arlen, could this be added to your https://twcloud.github.io/ site?

<:-)

[TW Tones]

Jimmy,

I second what Mat said

Jimmy - warmly welcome! And you're joining the Tiddly spirit right away, sharing stuff - wonderful!

There are many ways to access and share Tiddlywiki some are server or app based, others are manual or procedural. Personally I use a GitHub or PHP (and tw-receiver)  hosted tiddlywiki  but I would prefer an internet facing "Bob" server for multi-user and multi-access.

Your instructions are each to follow and very helpful, even free dropbox is enough to host a lot of tiddlywiki.

Question?

• Do you have to be careful accessing the same dropbox wiki from two devices at once?

Thanks to much for you contribution.

Perhaps your notes could go here;

https://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki%20Cloud

Regards

Tone

[Jimmy Sweeney]

Thanks Mat and Tone.

" Do you have to be careful accessing the same dropbox wiki from two devices at once? "

 

I haven't run into any issues yet. But I'm the only the one working on my TiddlyWiki. I'm guessing if two people were logged into the same dropbox and working on the TiddlyWiki at the same time, some issues might arise with saving. 

"Perhaps your notes could go here;

https://tiddlywiki.com/#TiddlyWiki%20Cloud"

Sure! How do I go about doing that?