Visual TiddlyWiki - Awesome Writing Tool

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Posted by JBfrom
Aug 27, 2011 at 10:54 PM

Yes, TiddlyWiki CAN be an outliner. Check out here: http://visualtw.ouvaton.org/VisualTW.html

That’s an auto-indexing outline on the left.

I have switched to using VisualTW for my T1 wiki. It’s vastly better than Wikidot or Wordpress for the purposes for several reasons:
1. WYSIWYG editor with wikiwords interlinking (you will have to do some configging to make it work… post on this coming at cyborganize.org)
2. Super-fast, pretty, easy intuitive navigation removes mental resistance
3. Tabs across the top
4. Super-easy interlinking and tagging
5. Full HTML means you can embed files, movies, pics, etc.
6. Autosave to recover mistakes easily
7. Highly extensible, large community, easy to customize

Quite simply this is the best way to build up your complete body of interconnected longform knowledge. It’s a breeze and a pleasure to use. You’ll need to learn very little wiki markup and very little in the way of code hacking.

BUT

Don’t try to do all this unless you’re willing to screw around with it for a while, like half a day. I’ll write the guide and save you the trouble.

Posted by JBfrom
Aug 28, 2011 at 03:06 AM

I’m about halfway through the article, in the mean time here are two outliner implementations of TiddlyWiki:

http://visualtw.ouvaton.org/VisualTW.html

http://www.giffmex.org/NoteStorm.html

NoteStorm is pretty cool and some people here might like it. Personally I decided to go the VisualTW route, and I’ll probably ditch or modify the left outline bar since it won’t scale too well.

Outlining is performed by tag hierarchy. To create tag hierarchy, just create a tiddler with the tag name and then tag it with the desired descendants. Pretty elegant solution!

Posted by JBfrom
Aug 28, 2011 at 02:34 PM

Ok the Visual TiddlyWiki guide is up here: http://www.cyborganize.org/tiddlywiki-installation/

It’s 3.3k words and 7 graphics.

A list of 10 benefits and features:

Easy WikiWords interlinking for deep web of interconnections in your longform knowledge
Rapid portability between WordPress and TiddlyWiki, with minimal HTML editing
Super-fast and intuitive navigation removes mental resistance
Pretty and appealing layout makes it pleasant to write
Tabs across the top make it easy to work on multiple documents
Can embed multimedia for full publishing flexibility
Autosave snapshots to recover work from any point
Works great with Dropbox
Highly extensible with active community, good help docs and accessible backend
Scales indefinitely without performance loss. It?s just text.

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