(Crossposting from reddit after being informed this was the more active group! Hope you don't mind this sort of post!)
I, like many, was WILDLY EXCITED about Roam Research when I first started playing with it, but then started noticing/experiencing too many flaws to commit. Having looked into a bunch of open-source, self-hosted alternatives, TiddlyRoam seems like it's the closest thing I'm going to get. (The org-roam interface just does not speak to me, and Dokuroam seems to require creating a virtual server on your machine to run it on, which does not seem like something I can recommend to the less tech-savvy, or something that's easy to beat into shape.) I've seen promising things when looking into TiddlyWiki to see how close it can get to what I want, but since I'm new to it, I thought I would ask the community for tips/information before getting halfway through setting up a non-optimal version. Hopefully this can also help some other noobs from my sort of background (not afraid of code, have built some Wordpress sites, but more of a scuba diver than a shark on the reef of tech)! TL;DR Can you look at what I want to achieve below and tell me how close I can get with TiddlyWiki? Any tips on any aspects of this are welcome. Ideally, I want to take my task management app and bullet journaling, my personal journaling (think morning pages), and my reading notes and writing drafts (I'm a content writer and a social science student), which are all scattered across different apps, notebooks, and file structures, and replace the lot with one system. Honestly my entire file structure would probably be better served being accessed through a non-hierarchical second brain, since neither social science nor content writing nor personal topics stay neatly and discretely under separate umbrellas, and trying to pick where to put things, and then remember they exist, and then find them again, is way too time-consuming right now. (I gather that TiddlyDesktop can open file links from your local machine? That could be a way to do that, so long as I'm religious about PC backups as well as Tiddly backups. On the other hand, moving a file would break the TiddlyWiki link...) So! - Roam-style bidirectional links and a map view are a must. Anything else that makes navigating large amounts of varied content in this system easier would also be great. - Daily Notes (a la Roam) would be ideal, which of course I could just manually create, but if there are any ways to automate the setup of these pages that would be fantastic. In my brief stint with Roam I had my daily checkbox task list at the top, links to the pages I worked on that day underneath and notes on what got done, and then free-form journaling thoughts after that. I also had notes on dates ahead that I would see again when that date rolled around. I couldn't get it to automatically add repeating habit check-boxes, but that would be grand if possible. Some sort of calendar view to review these pages (in addition to via their links) would also be good, no idea if such a thing can be done in TiddlyWiki. But that's extra, if I could just get the TiddlyWiki to automatically open to "Today" that would be huge in itself. Anyone tried/got this? - In terms of task management, being able to track tasks in general with some automation (so things don't slip through the cracks) would be great. The Francis Meetze way ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoMhKx0j8g&list=PLzZCajspPU_UjFn0uy-J9URz0LP4zhxRK&index=3) to get real check-box-having, self-categorising tasks is certainly interesting, though (a) I worry that needing a new Tiddler for every inane household task would make the wiki really, really cluttered, and (b) I'm not sure how this would integrate with the bullet-journal-inspired Daily Note task tracking. Any experience with this? Any ideas? - Ways to integrate external files so I can find them in context, rather than through File Explorer, would be very welcome. (See above for ideas and potential issues.) - Also wondering about inline images; I know these can be done, but is there a way to do it without cluttering up the wiki with extra Tiddlers? (Ckeditor?) Or without bloating the wiki file if you have quite a few? What are your experiences with this? How much of a problem is it really? - I'd love to be able to capture the text of whole web pages like I can with OneNote Web Clipper (when it works). Guards against sites taking down an article I might need to refer back to. (Even if I take excellent notes, being able to access the original text if needed can be important.) Is there currently a way to do that with TiddlyWiki? Spotted TiddlyClip and TagSpaces Web Clipper but not sure what would best fit the bill. - Lastly, I'd like to know how much mobile integration I can get. I'm very much leaning towards storing and running all of this on desktop, as I don't want my files in the cloud un-encrypted, and this MUST be able to run offline or I can't get *anything* done when the internet goes down. With that in mind, IS there any way to add to the TiddlyWiki from my phone on the go, or view any part of it on mobile? I've seen mention of NoteSelf, but I'm not really sure what the privacy implications are. If no good, what are the best ways to capture notes on the go, and then get them into the desktop notes without too much manual copying/formatting/tagging? Not sure how much cake I can have and eat here! But if I don't ask, I probably won't learn about the useful plugin that can do the thing... Huge thanks to anyone who reads this essay, especially if you have any useful experiences or advice to share! If I get a setup I am happy with, I will definitely post back an explanation/setup guide for my system in case it helps anyone else. 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