Opportunistic saving to web; my ideal workflow

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Timothy Sanders

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Oct 19, 2016, 10:33:36 AM10/19/16

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I was thinking of making some small changes, and was wondering if you could give me some feedback.

My workflow is that I have a tiddlywiki on my desktop, and I would like to be able to modify it during the day on my iPad with TWEdit, including in places where I don't have Internet access. I would like to be able to add or edit some tiddlers on my iPad or desktop, and have it sync with the other device.

I was looking at the saver modules, and, it looks like it would be possible to continue using the TWedit saver, but I don't see why I couldn't also call the post (tiddlyweb) saver. And perhaps I could attempt to make it more atomic by invoking it within the twedit saver.

As I mentioned in another thread, I was thinking of using git-sync to keep my .tid files for my desktop in sync with a bare repo. And to have a script that, upon changing of the uploaded html file from the iPad, use the tiddlywiki node.js script to explode the html file into .tid files, and then git-syncs with the same bare repo.

I need to research it, but, another option might be to opportunistically try the sync (as opposed to the saver) module.

This would just be a temporary measure, until something more is developed. I would be the only one using it.

I don't want to use Dropbox, because I don't want to risk my privacy, and also I don't really trust it. I want to be able to hit the save button, and have some sort of feedback that it was successfully saved and synced to my desktop.

Right now, I have been using Microsoft OneNote on my iPad and desktop, and it's awful with syncing. Especially because it only seems to sync when it feels like it. For now, I am connecting directly to my home computer over the Internet via an ssh tunnel, but, I want to be able to access my wiki even when offline.