Hi Neve, This comment doesn't answer ANY of your questions below, most of which are out of my expertise level. But just a note that TiddlyBlink is about to get an update that will make it function slightly more like Roam. Here is a link to see what is in store: https://giffmex.org/experiments/tiddlyblink.experiment.html
After you play with it and discover the two column format, think of the left column as a page in Roam, and the right column as the Roam sidebar. You can add TiddlyGraph plugin to TiddlyBlink. TiddlyRoam is (roughly) a prior version of TiddlyBlink but done in a slightly different way, plus TiddlyGraph. On Wednesday, April 22, 2020 at 9:15:33 AM UTC-5, Neve F wrote: > > (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. Ta! > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/b89e4922-2468-4406-923e-cf2ed4b1b6ef%40googlegroups.com.
