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Posted by ikandi
Jan 11, 2018 at 09:56 PM
Nuclino is very good and ticks many boxes. However there is no mobile client for Android and iOS, which makes it a showstopper for me
I use Redbooth for project management, but it can also be used as a filestore, among many other things. Its also very price competitive.
Posted by dg
Jan 28, 2018 at 08:43 PM
Dr Andus wrote:
Speaking of wikis, does anyone here use an online wiki as a private wiki
>for a personal notes database?
Sorry for posting this after the thread has gone quiet, but I recently researched this same question and decided this was the best solution…
Prices are reasonable, your Wiki is private unless you choose to share it, it has powerful professional features like
- transclusion (which they call “Include”) http://community.wikidot.com/system2:page-tags-howto/tag/include/category/howto
- variables http://community.wikidot.com/howto:system-variables-details
- and an active tech community that documents how to get things done http://community.wikidot.com/howto:howto-list
The free account might be all you ever need, but the $50/year plan should handle the most extensive personal Wiki I can imagine. There are other hosted Wiki’s, but this was the best solution I found for a professional grade personal Wiki.
Although I don’t know about moving your ConnectedText files to Wikidot, I think you could find a way to do in Wikidot everything you were doing in ConnectedText.
Hope that’s helpful.
Posted by dg
Jan 28, 2018 at 09:56 PM
Also, if you’re still willing to consider TW5, I’ve run it successfully as the originally intended single-file approach, but locally on my PC using TiddlyDesktop…
https://github.com/Jermolene/TiddlyDesktop/releases
And also following these simple instructions to install node.js and run TW5 in a manner that stores all the Tiddlers as separate small text fiiles
https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted%20-%20Node.js
I imported a small TW5 set of notes I’ve been building into the Node.js version and it easily converted them into the new form and stored each Tiddler as an independent text file. Testing showed effectively no difference in the operation of my little Wiki.
So right now I’m TiddlyDesktop because it’s so easy to use. But I have the confidence that if a the single file TW approach got too big, I could easily convert it into a Wiki where all the individual notes are stored on my hard disk as simple text files.
IOW, I’m finding TW pretty flexible and powerful.
Posted by Chris Thompson
Jan 29, 2018 at 02:36 PM
I don’t know why the TiddlyWiki developers don’t emphasize the ’’.hta’’ method of running TiddyWiki on Windows. On the website it’s described as some kind of weird hack, but it’s by far the easiest way to run TiddlyWiki on Windows and it works even on most locked-down corporate networks where you can’t install or run any kind of new software.
TW5 is fantastic and has the virtue of being powerful enough to do anything, but it’s basically like emacs—you have to be somewhat technical and willing to join a community and leverage a kind of oral history in order to figure out how to use it beyond the basics.
Posted by MadaboutDana
Jan 29, 2018 at 05:40 PM
Dang! I’ve just very successfully distracted myself from serious work by reading this bit about Node.js and just having to experiment. And wow, it does work really well!
It also means you don’t have to use an optimised browser (e.g. TiddlyDesktop or Firefox with TiddlyFox) to successfully interact with TiddlyWiki - the node.js server takes care of (auto)saving.
The only downside is, the output is not, of course, compatible with Quine (on iOS); for that, you still need the optimised browser setup… Ah well.
And yes, TiddlyWiki is remarkably flexible and powerful, especially if you use scripting to generate tagged outlines.
dg wrote:
>And also following these simple instructions to install node.js and run
>TW5 in a manner that stores all the Tiddlers as separate small text
>fiiles
>
>https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted%20-%20Node.js