tiddlywiki uses

[Luis Gonzalez]

How do you use tiddlywiky?

The more I use tiddlywiki the more I like it.

This is the wiki I use in my work to take notes.

[Mat]

Luis Gonzalez wrote:

How do you use tiddlywiky?

The question has been asked before, but it is of course an important one. I have several active wikis:

- one for work. I work as a teacher so it is notes about, well anything; ideas, things to show in class, regulations, meeting-notes etc etc.

- just working on a wiki for the pupils, which is a double setup where I author in one and publish to another public one

- household. Most active section is the groceries/shopping list. Otherwise ref notes, house hold item ref info, emergency info etc.

- a TW-stuff wiki, most notably a long list to other wikis with my plugins, half-bakes and experiments. 

As indicated from the last one, I have a zillion other wikis with various stuff but they are not in my day-to-day use.

<:-)

[Mohammad]

Hi Luis,

Many thanks for sharing!

Nice tiddler visual effects!

--Mohammad

[Birthe C]

Hi Luis,

Thank you for sharing your wiki. I can see how that can be useful for you, and at the same time it is a very beautiful wiki.

I use tiddlywiki for todo lists, garden plan, cookbook and shoppinglist, knitting, for decorative patterns, patterns, a little calculation, link browser to free patterns I consider knitting in the future, a tiny gallery with a few pictures for illustration and a small database for yarn. Needlesize, gauge and how many meters pr.100 g yarn. yarn mixture and that kind of stuff.

AND a lot of other tiddlywikies. TW addictions and the ease of starting yet another wiki, you know.

Birthe

[Riz]

I mainly use it for project management using Tekkan.

Link: https://ibnishak.github.io/Tekkan/Tekkan%20Demo.html

Sincerely,
Riz

[bimlas]

Luis Gonzales,

How do you use tiddlywiky?

At the moment I am using as a GUI to create a Node.js database frontend, so that less IT-skilled staff can query the data.

Most of the time, I try to keep all the information in a single wiki so I'm can be sure that i will find what I'm looking for (for example, if I would have a wiki for animated films and another for 3D design programs, I might not know, where to put the tiddler of the animated movie made with my favorite 3D modeling software).

To search by topics (animated films, 3D modeling software) I use the Locator plugin (https://bimlas.gitlab.io/tw5-locator/), which allows me to determine which part of the table of contents to restrict my search.

Here's my wiki: https://bimlas.gitlab.io/

For easy-to-identify things (TODO list, GIF collection, etc.) I use separate single HTML wikis.

To combine these two solutions, I created a userscript for "Combine TiddlyWiki5 and search engine results", which allows you to search alongside Google results in your own wikis. Unfortunately, it's not quite usable yet because an issue needs to be resolved first (see the readme).

https://gitlab.com/bimlas/userscript-combine-tw5-and-search-engine-results

[Jed Carty]

I have about 50 wikis set up on Bob right now. One for documentation for each of the projects I have going, one for each subject of my phd research and then different ones for games, keeping track of books that I have read or plan to read, the medical history of our dog, records for our house and things like that.

Now with the federated chat and syncing setup I have it syncing with my wife and we can use it for chat and shared calendars.

[t...@bakera.de]

Jed Carty schrieb am 24.09.19 um 14:28:

>
> Now with the federated chat and syncing setup I have it syncing with my
> wife and we can use it for chat and shared calendars.

That sounds rather interesting. Can you say more about the federation
feature or give me link to a page that has more information on that?



Thx,
Marco.

[Aidan Grey]

I have about 30 TW that get regular use:

• resources, where I keep plugins, macros, snippets, how to's, TWified fonts, etc for easy copy into other TW
• Divination of all kinds is one of my passions, so I have TW for several different methods, notes, my own commentary, etc. Yi Jinmg, Geomancy, Numerology, Traditional Astrology, Cartomancy are some of the distinct TW I keep.
• Writing a book on how to create your own divination system - using TW for content edit #2 because it's easier to move tiddlers around and add new ones than it is to fiddle with word documents
• Using TW as a tool to sort - one of the processes I use is to take a metric buttload (~150L, BTW)  of meanings and situations, and tag them with potential tokens. For example, the end of a relationship could be tagged with end and relationship. Once I've done this for all/enough of the meanings (I have a list of about 12k I'm working through at the moment), I can then start sorting the tokens into final tokens (cards, runes, what have you). Those final tokens become the cards/runes/bones/etc I then design. This makes it easy to have a meaning that shows up in multiple places (thanks to tags) to indicate different nuances.
• The rules doc / setting details for my homebrew TTRPG.
• Starting to work on an endless choose your own / text-based RPG based on FUDGE/FATE. It's sorting out the engine stuff that's the hard part
• As the divination interest might indicate... I'm a spooky guy. I teach classes on Animism, divination, and magic of a bunch of varieties. Each of those classes has their own TW for notes, questions, observations, bits to add, etc.
• I keep a materia magica - the tools, components, spells etc. I use magically. Essentially, a magical cookbook, with tiddlers for recipes as well as for ingredients and techniques.
• Notes on various inspiring religious traditions and ideas (Shinto, Druidry, ATRs, other Animisms)
• Writing a few grimoires - manuals for working with specific spirits and/or traditions. TW is perfect for these.
• Big language geek - I am a conlanger (I CONstruct LANGuages) and member of Language Creation Society. I have TW for the grammar of my language, another as a dictionary (learning much from recent thread on dictionary slowdown), and for the conworld (CONstructed world) and conpeople that use my lang.
• Notes on other languages I am learning / enjoy - currently, that's separate TWs for Finnish, Native American Languages (mostly Cherokee and Ute at the moment), Japanese, Korean, and Celtic (I speak Irish and Welsh, have an MA in Celtic langs, so...)
• Writing a book on a/the Spider Goddess (have a thing for spiders - born 3wks premature because a black widow bit mother who went into shock then labor - unfortunately, it wasn't radioactive), so notes, text, etc. all goes into a TW
• Have an elemental system based on 3 forces / 9 elements, and that's all explained in TW. There's a huge yi jing - like divination system that goes with it, based on combinations of the 9 elements (729 "trees" result), and they're explored via TW too - the random tool and a tiddler per "tree".

I keep all of these on a thumb drive that I back up nightly (or so). SO much easier to use for me that trying to set up / use a traditional wiki. Especially since they're primarily / only for ME. I don't get the "dirty looks" from the wiki farms about not sharing, no need to pay to have all the wikis I want, etc. It's easy to switch back and forth when there's overlap (frequently), easy to spin up a new, self-contained topic wiki, fairly hackable to get exactly what I want functionality and look wise.I like that I can be as organic or linear as I want: the grammar is pretty linear, uses ToC and various plugins / field to keep things orderly, the sorting is going from super organic to linear, and the materia magica is staying pretty organic overall.

Work notes - I've thought about it, but too hard with the way things are set up. So I BuJo those. Only forget all the obnoxious "spend to weeks to make the monthly layout pretty" BS. I'm super practical there - it's a half page labeled "September" with a list of things and that's it. Messy, but useful. And strangely organized.

Okay, that's enough of that.

[Mohammad]

Tekkan, one of the great use case for Tiddlywiki.

[Julio Peña]

Hola Luis,

Pero muy elegante! 

Thanks for sharing your wiki.

At my job a mainly use my wiki as a combination of a task manager and the taking of technical notes.

At home I use it for mainly saving sites as a glorified bookmark and taking notes on my other interests.

Many blessings to all,

Julio

[TonyM]

Luis,

Timely to revisit this question.

• I have a key wiki in which I have a sophisticated Todo, project and references for life, projects and clients. This simply evolves with my needs.
• I recently built a tiddlywiki for a business as a database that produces numerous customised documents to send to there business clients. Providing a major productivity improvement 2-4 days work down to a hour or two.
• I build wikis for custom projects like building and documenting content for a website, designing a tiddlywiki community solution, 
• As others have mentioned, I have a plugin repository its main feature capturing the source of the plugin so often not provided in plugins
• I have a core tiddlywiki which can index all my registered wikis
• Scratch wikis for experiments or data cleaning
• A Wiki that generates Sandbox wikis to address a particular solution within tiddlywiki (A dozen sandbox wikis as a result)
• I have a TiddlyWiki reference wiki on which I capture tips, trick and code framents/patterns
• I have a Technical reference wiki on which I capture tips, trick and code framents/patterns other than tiddlywiki
• I have a published learn tiddlywiki that contains tiddlywiki.com plus learning notes and annotations
• I have an almost complete Journaling wiki that I plan to use on mobile
• I have a desktop wiki in TiddlyDesktop for desktop, internet interactions and links
• A lot of my Tiddlywikis are experiments with extending tiddlywiki.
• I have wikis I used while I was traveling with documents, times and journals, passport copy, insurance details, flight Itineraries. Booking details
• I have a wiki for my home network
• I have a published plugin wiki V1.0 only https://tiddlywiki.psat.com.au/mymenus/
• I have a Wiki to publish to the LAN my computer
• A wiki on my Synology disc station as a Intranet site
• I have a wiki for a big data course I did 
• I am building some serious solutions for tiddlywiki to assist in rapid development
• and a lot more

I observe from other replies that most are private, so I am not surprised we do not see too many published as editions.

Regards

Tony

[Mohammad]

Hi Tony,

Based on your answer and other answers in this thread

Can we conclude

Tiddlywiki is used like doc file! Every file is used for different purpose!

We do not have everything in one file (wiki)

So

Create one wiki for one or few small project! Don not try t create a central wiki to have all things in one wiki! 

Or TW is not capable for that!

I want to draw a conclusion and  recommendations how to use Tiddlywiki for who is new to TW.

--MOhammad

[TonyM]

Mohammad,

I think what you say appears to be true, however it is one aspect of tiddlywiki "Building larger central Wikis" that a number of people have tackled some publicly like Jed with Bob, and some privately like me. I have a core wiki to which I register wikis and build an index to my wikis. I am working on a new iteration of this at the moment to host json bundles of developer tools and macro add ons.

Personally I would like to take the single wiki a lot further by building them as smart documents. To do this we need to establish some good standards

• Author registration and tracking
• User control
• Locking or check in out the document (for serial editing)
• Optional call home analytics so you can see where the smart document is used or published
• Ability to send though all email clients eg using .tw file extencion

Since I have worked in information and document management I realised that a lot of the document management features built into environments like share-point  could actually be built into the document itself. For example a tiddlywiki "document" unlike word documents do not need the word application installed. Version control and trash can be built-in the document and smart interactive features like surveys, slideshows, data entry and import, visualisation etc... can be built into a smart document.

To me the main recommendation for tiddlywiki is what does the person need it for? No doubt It can be used for that and a lot more. Its an investment in a platform that allows you to go from ad hoc notes through to applications, websites, authorship tools and smart documents even before you use it as a server to deliver all of these. To me it is an ecosystem within which you can evolve both your skills and solutions using computers/software.

Perhaps the answer to what do we recommend it for, should be returned as a question, what do you need a solution for? Because tiddlywiki will most likely be a good software platform for what ever they answer.

Tiddlywiki is a software platform to address many different needs that can be solved with software.

Regards

Tony

[Mohammad]

So

what do you need a solution for?

And you will recommend the edition or solution suitable!

Thanks Tony!

[TonyM]

Mohammed,

Well the solution will be tiddlywiki in 99% of cases (My Opinion) but will there be an out of a box solution - that depends.

Often new users are only after something basic so they may often be satisfied with tiddlywiki plus some relevant tips.

I do believe we need a more than empty edition for first time users that includes contents, certain buttons visible and more. I also think for learning they need something like my https://tiddlywiki.psat.com.au/learn/ edition (beta only) on the side.

Regards

Tony

[Mat]

@newbies especially:

I forgot to mention a "meta wiki" that is definitely one of my main uses:

I use TiddlySpot for almost everything so I have a pre-made wiki there with the typical plugins preinstalled and tweaks that I prefer.

It is similar to http://tiddlywiki5.tiddlyspot.com/

i.e it is set up, on tiddlyspot, so that I can crank out new wikis in 60 seconds whenever I need it.

Since I phrased it like that I should also say that if I make a wiki that I'm no longer interested in, I go into the tiddlyspot controlpanel and delete the wiki, i.e <mywiki>.tiddlyspot.com/controlpanel

<:-)

[@TiddlyTweeter]

This a VERY GOOD idea!

To keep it read make sure you update and REPOST updates please!

(WHY? Beacuse if you don't it will be forgotten quickly!)

Best wishes

TT

[@TiddlyTweeter]

On my usage.

I use BOB.exe most to help create wiki quickly the most as it let's me use the OS to harvest data.

My main work is with people making films and training them. 

I create wiki and then destroy them after a few days so they always never get repeat data.

Just FYI

Josiah

On Tuesday, 24 September 2019 11:54:01 UTC+2, Luis Gonzalez wrote:

[Ste Wilson]

I'm using it mainly to create engineering text book and ancillary projects so recently using it to start producing teaching schemes of work or spreadsheet like usage to do force calculations.

[David Gifford]

I sadly keep changing my systems as I discover new ways of organizing information, so I have a long trail of old experiments and my notes on any given topic are scattered among too many old TWs.

But my current system, most of which has been stable for a few months:

1. A to do wiki, a contacts wiki, and about ten info wikis, each on a different aspect of life.

2. About 10-12 wikis for notes on reading. I create a tiddler for the book, then tiddlers for each chapter as I read them. Then I move the notes from the chapter tiddlers to...

3. One of about 200 or so notes by topic. Together they are my big database of quotes and notes.

4. Also, one TW for notes from webpage reading, as I tend to take notes differently for Pocket articles and things I happen upon.

5. Wikis in Spanish on each topic I publish static htmls for, primarily New Testament since that is what I teach at a seminary here in Mexico City.

6. A couple wikis with links to OneDrive photo galleries, one private for family photos, and one public, for ministry photos (http://giffmex.org/ministry.photos.html). I have to confess I haven't added to these for months, but then life has been chaotic lately.

7. Experimental TWs as necessary, for tinkering with new ideas.

Blessings.

[Magnus]

I mainly use a TW to keep track of my orchids, and dussins of experimental ones to evolve this into something useful. Also, many years ago I designed a intranet info site for work in TWC, still in use :)

[A Gloom]

TW is my text/html/svg editor, multimedia content manager, book/video game world building app/wiki

<< >> Just about decided on showing the secret project-- TW as an immersive multi-media story presentation, story world wiki & choose your adventure browser with immersive world wiki content presentation & video game style interface (a sneak peek was already leaked in another topic)

[Victor Dorneanu]

This thread is awesome! I still think Tiddlywiki can be used for so many purposes. I'm always looking forward for new ideas how to use TW. For all people that have posted how they use TW:

• How do you manage different TWs? Do you use any versioning system (e.g. git)
• How do you cross-link between TWs?
• Do you have a workflow for publishing new TWs?
• How do you separate "private" Tiddlers from "public" ones?
  

At the moment I only have 1 big TW that I use for several things:

• Collection of highlights from different books I have read
• Currently available at http://wiki.dornea.nu/books.html
  
• Collection of highlights from different (online) articles I constantly read
  
• (Technical) notes regarding programming, networking and security
• For project management I use "bullet journaling" and a Leuchtturm 1917 A4
  
• I still think that taking notes with pen and paper is way faster than any digital solution
• saving these notes for future use is indeed a problem: From time to time I review them and "copy" them to TW
• In general I think TW is a perfect GUI for managing bits of information
• you can easily import JSON
  
• you can easily tag data
  
• you always have a nice GUI to view and manipulate your data
• at work I have used TW to classify "security vulnerabilities" info "false positives" or "true positives"
• future plans:
• I'm planning to migrate my blog (http://blog.dornea.nu) to TW
• Embed Jupyter Notebooks
  
• have TW running on AWS Lambda (with a DynamoDB backend)
• based on widdly
• some work has been done: check https://gitlab.com/vdorneanu/widdly

Keep up the good examples! Have a nice day.

Greetings from Berlin,

Victor