I am new to tiddlywiki, and have precious little experience with web development in general. My perspective is that of someone looking for software with certain functionality that I can use to build some apps I've been thinking about for a long time.
I've long been frustrated trying to find a task management program that worked exactly how I wanted it to. About 8-9 months ago I was sketching out ideas for what the ideal software might be, and came up with the idea of having these "boxes" that could hold any type of information, and which could be connected together however I saw fit, into a sort of node graph. Thinking about structuring information as a tree or node graph makes a great deal of sense in the way my mind works, so naturally I began thinking about how the UI could be described in terms of these graph nodes, and nodes could be reused in many places. I've been trying to find some sort of framework ever since that would allow me to create a single type of information flexible enough to hold all the different parts of a program, from the UI and logic to the users own data. I've thought about how such a system might be used to create anything from an email client to text editor. In fact, the only application I hadn't thought about was using such a system to create a wiki! I've looked at React, Reagent, Meteor, Angular, Om, re-frame, and dozens of other libraries and frameworks. I liked a lot of the ideas behind many of those, but none of them are close enough to what I envisioned to allow me to adapt it to create something like what I envisioned. I came across TW several weeks ago, and was very excited to discover that Tiddles are almost EXACTLY what I was looking for! The functionality of Tiddles, being able to link, search, transclude, and hold any arbitrary type of data, include metadata via fields, this is very nearly the precise functionality I wanted from my small unit of information. Which is why I referred to TW Vanilla as a "default app": from my perspective, the Tiddles and the wiki are two distinct things. The wiki is simply one of the cool things that can be built from Tiddlers. Earlier this week I was even sketching ideas for how one might use Tiddlers to build an application with electron, by having each UI panel as a separate $tw instance, and keeping their tiddle stores in sync. Which is what brings me back to my original question, which might be better phrased as "How do I separate the Tiddles from the Wiki?" -- 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 tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d0becf82-ca7e-4211-a153-7b69a60f9816%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
