Having been away from TiddlyWiki for many moons (i.e. pre-HTML5 days), i'm very happy with how the UX has improved, except for this one aspect of managing data storage. Have been playing with this for some hours, but cannot find any good way to get what i want on this score, which is
1. In keeping with the Local-First principle <https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html>, the file on my machine should be updated immediately on save of a newly-edited tiddler; and then.. 2. That updated file should sync with its online-accessible version (Github.io, in my case) with as little friction as possible. Initially, i was pleased to discover how easy it is to save my incremental changes to Github, using the "GitHub Saver" in Control Panel... Until i discovered that the file in my local Github directory was not being updated, which violates the Local-First principle <https://www.inkandswitch.com/local-first.html> that is one of my non-negotiable requirements (i spend a fair bit of time offline, so cloud storage cannot be the default, but is instead the backup). Then -finding no affordances in the default UI for local storage- i explored the plugins, and found this "Browser Storage: Local storage in the browser" plugin, which i have installed, but this still doesn't solve the problem, AFAICT; nothing gets saved until i click the download button, which results in a new file with an incremented filename in my local download directory -which i then have to rename, so i can then overwrite the previous version in my local Github directory, so i can then push it live to Github.io. This is not a sustainable workflow. So: i'm thinking: there has *got* to be an easier way... But then, browsing this forum for an answer, the most current & relevant thread on the topic, i.e. "When do my wiki edits get saved to the local file system? <https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/tiddlywiki/angzund0Ngc/7znvsXhlBQAJ>" would seem to indicate that this requirement of Local-First storage is not such an easy one to solve. Now, as i have reliable internet access at the moment, i can do it the wrong way round -i.e. enable the GitHub Saver for now, and then just pull to my local GitHub directory for backup- but meanwhile, if some more experienced user here can tell me a way to get Local-First storage working in a relatively frictionless way, i'd be much obliged! -- 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/c0f52f20-b910-468d-bebf-9dd8536c9af5%40googlegroups.com.
