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Jeff (@tangjeff), Im sure you're already familiar with Tiddlywiki[1]. How does this compare/draw from/improve/etc on that?

For those who arent familiar with TW, I encourage you to check it out. Its one of the original bi-directional linked, open-sourced, graph-based (as revealed with TiddlyMap plugin, though not using a graph database) note-taking apps that is completely customizable.

It was recently posted and discussed on HN as well [2][3].

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com/ [2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25527581 [3] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=tiddlywiki

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Not him, but I used TW extensively. The problem was the entire wiki is in one HTML file (which is impressive), but it did not scale with additional image tiddlers. At some point it would just not load. There is a separate NodeJS hosted version which I ran for a year, but it had memory issues. (Again, probably tied to the number of images). I totally get it's mainly for notes, but I'm lazy and sometimes I paste snippets from papers rather than rewrite them, so it balloons easily.

It's fantastic software, though!

I solve that issue by putting all my images in a folder and referencing them with a filepath. Not quite as portable as a single html file containing images but as somebody not planning to regularly send it to friends it gives a lot of flexibility to alter and change images easily, just add to the folder and reference.

The first time I used Tiddly years ago, the UX never resonated with me so I wasn't able to get over the learning curve.

More recently, one of our users gave me a pretty detailed tour of their Tiddly, which shares sentiments of the other commenters. Single file is great until it's not. Lots of plugins but requires manual config. Needing to startup a server to collaborate wasn't great.

What "killer features" do you think Tiddly has?

I've tried to use TiddleWiki, and while it's an impressive piece of software, it suffers from the same issue many other community-run open source software does: it's ugly, and hard to use.

Yeah, I get it, there are themes and plugins, but still, all of them are ugly.

And that's just the surface, I've had a few deeper complaints too.

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