Advise request. 1 doc for everything vs several specialized docs

[Guayo Mena]

Hi! I'm loving TiddlyWiki and I'm using it more and more every day.

I'm a freelancer web developer, so I'm using it to store notes about programming tips, documentation on projects, some tasks  and details on clients and meetings. As you can imagine, my file is growing quickly.

I already have lots of tags.

Although I've read that TiddlyWiki files can grow up to gigabyte sizes and still work properly, I wanted to know from experienced users if it would be better to have different documents for everything as opposed to developing a complex tag hierarchy. (ie. One doc for clients, projects and documentation VS a separate doc for each one of those things)

What do you think? I would like to read some opinions.

Thanks!!

[Jon]

Hi Guayo,

I use TW5 with Firefox and I find having separate wikis for distinct themes works better eg. work, personal, study etc.

I then enter a shortcut to the other wikis in the page subtitle (in Control Panel) so clicking on the shortcut for another wiki will open it in another tab in the browser.

Then its very easy to go from one wiki to the next.

Hope that helps

Jon

[Jon]

 p.s.

The shortcut to a file appearing as "A" in the subtitle would be entered something like this:

[[A|file:///C:/Users/Me/Documents/FilePath/FileName.html]]

[Alex Hough]

Guayo,

I've been using TW for quite while now: my current strategy is to use lots of wikis and to put them in a GitHub folder. If I want to publish the TW I can do, I use the GitHub desktop tool.

When I want a new wiki i either save one of my existing ones with a different name or visit TiddlyWiki.com and download the whole page. I can then make suggestions to change TW and have all the help on hand. 

There are a couple of macros on TW.com that the empty doesn't have; thumnail macro and the documentation macros.

It's a little bit more risky, you need to watch out for clicking the back button on the browser, but i just save the TW when i am making a big change by clicking the red tick.

Sometimes I will download Tobias' plugins wiki and play with that.

Remember you can drag tiddlers to your wiki from another wiki's sidebar, or from any wiki link. I do that a lot.

I don't bother with external images, I take screenshots and drag them into my TW.

I have also started using encripted wikis. I was surprised by the feeling of producing "secret" stuff, i felt liberated, and that surprised me.

@Jeremy, given that TW is explicitly  "a non-linear personal web notebook" I more could be made of the "personal". Would it be heresy to propose considering  "a non-linear personal / private / web notebook" -- or at least re-emphasising the private. I think its a great feature. I've put data onto my laptop that I wouldn't have otherwise.

Alex

On 14 January 2016 at 06:37, Guayo Mena <guayo...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi! I'm loving TiddlyWiki and I'm using it more and more every day.

I'm a freelancer web developer, so I'm using it to store notes about programming tips, documentation on projects and details on clients. So my fil is growing quickly.

I already have lots of tags.

Although I've read that TiddlyWiki files can grow up to gigabyte sizes and still work properly, I wanted to know from experienced users if it would be better to have different documents for everything as opposed to developing a complex tag hierarchy. (ie. One doc for clients, projects and documentation VS a separate doc for each one of those things)

What do you think? I would like to read some opinions.

Thanks!!

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[David Gifford]

Hi Guayo

I recommend a central index TW bookmarked in your browser. Put your other TWs in the same folder as the central index, and give them short, easy to remember names.

Then when you want to start a new tiddler in one of the TWs, go first to the central index and create a tiddler for that topic (eg Clients), then type in an external link to an as yet uncreated tiddler in the other TW file. Example: [ext[Lucy Parsons|./clients.html#Lucy Parsons]]

where [ext[ ]] is the external link markup,

Lucy Parsons is the text that will show in the link,

| divides the above from the actual link,

./ is the relative path to the other TW file

clients.html is the other file,

# indicates that the rest of the link is to a tiddler in that file,

and Lucy Parsons is the name of the tiddler.

Save and click the link and you will be taken to the other file to create your tiddler. If the tiddler already exists there, it will appear.

That way you have one index of everything, so everything is easy to find, but you don't worry about filesize. The central index will just be links to the other TW files where all the content is.

Dave

On Thursday, January 14, 2016 at 12:37:41 AM UTC-6, Guayo Mena wrGuayoote:

[Guayo Mena]

Wow! Thanks! So many good tips!
The index tip is a very good idea. I like it!

[RickL]

Any way to get this to work on  mobile platform? I tried with Firefox and Andtidwiki .....