What is tiddlywiki for?

[Mabel van Asperen]

With so many extensions and options I'm still at a loss to now whether TiddlyWiki is the answer to my prayers or not.
My objectives is to organize my thoughts and all the documents and webpages pertaining to them; thus easily adding links to all kinds of documents and web-pages is essential. Yet (in v.5) I couldn't find a way to link to external documents or URL's.
Also organising everything in various 'tree-views' would be helpful.

Can TiddlyWiki be of help or am I looking in the wrong place? If so, could anyone suggest where to look for my kind of 'organiser'?

Mabel

[David Gifford]

Hi Mabel

Tiddlywiki is the answer to many prayers, and the cause of many more prayers! It can be overwhelming at first.

Links work in tiddlers just as they do anywhere. Add a link to an URL or full filepath, and clicking the link opens the page in a new tab.

You might try out my dumpster for dumping bookmarks or thoughts. https://giffmex.org/experiments/asterisk.dumpster.html, to see how bookmarking and dumping individual ideas might look. And feel free to download it and use it if you like it.

Regarding tree views, TiddlyWiki has its own table of contents macro ( https://tiddlywiki.com/#Table-of-Contents%20Macros%20(Examples) ) but see the many other options in this section of my toolmap: https://dynalist.io/d/zUP-nIWu2FFoXH-oM7L7d9DM#z=QWdEBqaQUwlcIQVkU4TWTauS

I tend to prefer the list-search macro I use in the tabs of my dumpster over trees and outlines.

Dave

[Charlie Veniot]

G'day Mabel,

I think, from my mindset: start simple, start small.  Maybe ignore plugins until you get basics of tiddlers and organizing tiddlers via links between tiddlers, maybe "index" tiddlers that are just simple lists of links to other tiddlers.  

Of those things you ask about, probably good to figure out "drag'n drop" of URL's into a Tiddler.  If it helps, see screenshot below.

I'll let more experienced TiddlyWiki folk chime in on your other questions.

Cheers !