Hey - Thanks, Jeremy for the good & quick response. Have installed Tiddly Desktop version 0.0.13 (13), seems to be working and auto-saving fine on my Mac.
But (never content to leave well enough alone ;-) i now wonder: can i get the GitSaver affordance in the desktop app working? Turned it on, but now when i save a tiddler, it pulls a 404 error msg. Is this supposed to work somehow? Meanwhile: i'll deactivate that option, and pushTo/ pullFrom Github from my console as i usually do. Good enough for now! On Saturday, April 25, 2020 at 3:29:09 PM UTC+1, Jeremy Ruston wrote: > > 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] <javascript:>> 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 > > 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] <javascript:>. > 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/a3ab361a-0690-4042-bb75-9adc16d46f50%40googlegroups.com.
