Comments on: Introducing the Wiki Wallet: TiddlyFolio

By: Getting Things Done with TiddlyJournal: Doing It Tomorrow | Wombat Diet

Getting Things Done with TiddlyJournal: Doing It Tomorrow | Wombat Diet — Thu, 23 Oct 2008 07:07:04 +0000

[...] is, a digital back of the envelope. It will be called TiddlyJournal (see pic) if I release it (see TiddlyFolio, TiddlyTimeJournal for a couple of other useful little tools created using [...]

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Keeping A Time Journal: Introducing TiddlyTimeJournal | Wombat Diet — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:22:50 +0000

[...] course, I didn’t start from scratch. I reverted to the excellent TiddlyWiki (which I used for TiddlyFolio, recently updated btw) and its growing library of [...]

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 12:53:15 +0000

8th August 2008:
TiddlyFolio has been updated to use the latest TiddlyWiki core (v2.4.1). Many
plugins and macros have also been updated. Functionality is largely
unchanged (passwords now masked on entry); however, future core upgrades should be possible via TiddlyWiki’s upgrade function.

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:20:21 +0000

If you have your own web-accessible online storage there may be no need for TiddlySpot at all. There’s a webDAV plugin available but I haven’t tried it, I just save to my own webDAV storage on Fastmail; it looks like a local drive and I can get to it, with a login, from any web browser.

You can run quite a decent a little personal website in a single file if you want to. Here’s a nice example. I find uploads to TiddlySpot a little slower than I’d like, but knowing that you can get to all your passwords and other get out of jail data in seconds is, what’s the word, priceless? Hmm. Maybe that would have been a better name.

BTW if you are going to hack TiddyWiki files Notepad++ is worth a look.

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 11:37:00 +0000

It’s lunchtime, and I’m eating al desko, so an opportunity for another play. Thanks for the pointer to the Mac page. That helped a bit. I think the crucial aspect of what you’ve done is to link to TiddlySpot. That, I reckon, might be the missing link. Especially if uploading to TiddlySpot can be automated. I’m sure it can …

By: Eats Wombats

Eats Wombats — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 10:48:11 +0000

TiddlyWikis can be somewhere between deceptively simple and frustratingly opaque. It’s easy to download one and futz with plugins, find dead ends and give up (though the Google groups community is V helpful). I also gave up at first, when trying to create this. Start here if you want to see what can be done with a little software Lego.

As a single file contains everything (java code, documentation, data and illustrations) I tried to be concise. If you let me know anything that’s not clear I’ll clarify it.

I also never got on with any GTD implementation using TiddlyWiki, partly as I was already using MyLifeOrganized (MLO) and a) had learned that sticking with something matters more than finding a perfect tool, and b) it wasn’t sufficiently compelling. MLO is a PC + MS handheld solution only. A version is free and just might be worth running XP on your Mac for, or trying if you are already doing that.

Another free and cross-platform implementation I’ve seen and liked was phpGTD. It works and is readily hackable, and I might have gone with it if I was au fait with PHP earlier. It’s not cute like iGTD, Midnight Inbox and other Mac solutions. The software, in the end, doesn’t really matter. It’s the journey.

TF is far simpler than any GTD solutions of course. It’s now in the TW solutions gallery under “special goodies.”

By: Jeremy

Jeremy — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 08:25:41 +0000

This sounds like a really good solution, and I started to play with it at work, but for someone who has never used a tiddlywiki (except on an abortive and pointless attempt to put GTD on a machine, I was all at sea.
No doubt I will get there, but it seemed to me that the instructions were maybe a little too terse.