This little wiki stayed home

[avram]

TiddlyWiki, by Jeremy Ruston, has for some time been the coolest damn DHTML app I’ve ever seen. I couldn’t think of anything useful to do with it, but damn it’s cool. It’s a self-contained wiki, implemented in JavaScript and CSS, contained in a single HTML page. Its individual elements — what would be pages in most wikis, and are here called tiddles — are DIV sections that become visible as you invoke them, and go away when you close them. All the usual wiki goodies are there — you can edit each tiddle, and link among them, and it’ll build HTML out of simple text markup, etc. The only thing TiddlyWiki was missing when last I looked at it, several months ago, was a convenient way to save your edits.

That problem’s been solved. Now you just save your TiddlyWiki to your local hard drive (or floppy, or USB thumb drive), edit to your heart’s content, and then click the Save link. Works in Firefox; I haven’t tried it in anything else yet. Now you can make copies, email them to people, post them online, carry them around on a USB keychain, whatever.

Nathan Bowers has developed a variant: GTD TiddlyWiki. Designed for use with David Allen’s Getting Things Done personal productivity system, this version sports some neat navigational features (like a sidebar menu that automagically updates based on the MainManu tiddle contents), nice design, and the ability to print your tiddles to 3x5 index cards.

Comments

[mylescorcoran]

That is so cool. It's going on my thumb drive this instant.