So, TW Desktop?

[Shay Shaked]

I saw the Vid. 

To me, it looks a lot like the same thing as the web version. Are there any functional differences? I know that with the new Firefox, I'll probably want to use it for fluid saving process... but besides that? What are some good user-case scenarios when it's better to use it than the browser version? 

[Reid Gould]

While still listed as "experimental", a neat feature added in 0.0.7 release is the "Add A TiddlyWiki Folder" button. It allows you to use a folder of individual tid files instead of a monolithic HTML file. This is an advantage for file saving because it only has to overwrite the few KB in the tiddlers that you changed instead of overwriting a multiple MB file each time. Also, there's occasions when I like to just edit one thing with a text editor, and that is much easier and safer with individual files.

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[coda coder]

On Sunday, November 5, 2017 at 10:06:14 AM UTC-6, Shay Shaked wrote:

I saw the Vid. 

To me, it looks a lot like the same thing as the web version. Are there any functional differences?

Core TW functionality?  It's the same.  However, if you use ANY browser-provided functionality in tandem with your TW workflow, you may have issues. 

TiddlyDesktop uses NW.js which uses Chromium (a bare-bones, guts-only version of Chrome).  So what you will NOT have is any parts of the browser you might ordinarily rely on.  Do you use  Ctrl-F/Find (Cmd-F on Mac?) to access the browser's page search facility?  Not available. Writing/developing macros/templates can be painful without Ctrl-F.  Do you bookmark links in your TWs?  No bookmarks...  Anything else you can think of that you would use that is part of the browser shell is likely not there, either.

So it depends on your workflow and use case(s).