TiddlyWiki resurgent

Posted by MadaboutDana
Oct 23, 2017 at 08:29 AM

Hm, I fear a system-wide search wouldn’t be helpful with TiddlyWiki, because despite the fact that each tiddler *appears* to be a separate note, they’re actually all written into the single (enormous, ca. 2 MB in a modest setup) HTML file that is TiddlyWiki.

For something like you’re describing, you’d be better off with Alfons’s Notebooks, which handles all notes as separate files, or maybe one of the many excellent cross-platform Markdown editors. Notebooks is very capable, and a new version is due out in the “not too distant” future (hopefully ramping up its capabilities in line with the very good iOS version).

I’m currently experimenting with Chronos’s latest, Notelife. Nice app, but I can’t work out how it handles its files. It uses iCloud for syncing, but keeps everything hidden and notes don’t show up in a general (Spotlight) search.

Cheers,
Bill