Hi Ludwa Your local first principle is roughly the setup I use for my personal wikis. I use TiddlyDesktop on my Mac and Quine on my iPad/iPhoen. Both are a dedicated browsers for TiddlyWiki that save changes automatically to the local file system, which can then be synced as desired (I use both Dropbox and Git).
Best wishes Jeremy > On 25 Apr 2020, at 14:59, ludwa6 <[email protected]> wrote: > > 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 > 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.. > 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] > <mailto:[email protected]>. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c0f52f20-b910-468d-bebf-9dd8536c9af5%40googlegroups.com > > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/c0f52f20-b910-468d-bebf-9dd8536c9af5%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer>. -- 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/511DF37D-B36C-4F89-B4F9-1FF0C4FB7643%40gmail.com.
