Hi everyone Just wanted to note that I have been integrating TiddlyWiki and Workflowy quite well. Each one counteracts the shortcomings of the other. I use a central TW to create a tag based hierarchy of topic tiddlers. And the tiddlers contain no text, only links to the corresponding articles in Workflowy. If a given topic would be better served by a TiddlyWiki (i.e., embedded images, wiki links and more control over the page style and text formatting), I create a TW and link to it from the central TW.
Why this approach? 1. Workflowy is better for free writing and rearranging as I write. It is a writing tool. It allows me to work far faster than TW ever could. By contrast, putting asterisks for bulleted lists or @@ for indenting, etc, takes me out of the zone when writing in TW. So I write my actual content in Workflowy. 2. Workflowy is also infinitely scaleable. No concern about ever hitting a filesize ceiling. And no need to create multiple TiddlyWikis and have to manage them. 3. But tagging, listing and filtering are much nicer in TiddlyWiki. There is no tool like TiddlyWiki for showing relationships between topics (tiddlers) like TiddlyWiki. 4. And the search in TW is so fast and flexible compared to pretty much anything out there. By contrast, searching in Workflowy, even when using its tag system, turns up reams of irrelevant stuff, because topic titles are not distinguished from content in WF as they are in TW. So when I have even something small worth saving, I create a topic tiddler and tag it, and in the edit template I have a link to open up the notes section of my Workflowy. I write the note or article or outline or whatever it is there, grab the link from the browser bar (every single bullet in WF has its own URL), and paste it into the still open tiddler. If the topic already has a tiddler with a link to that topic in WF, I open that tiddler and open the WF link there and add the note there. Pretty quick system. So now I have a virtually infinite CMS using one central TW, a WF account, and the occasional topical TW file here and there. Filesize is irrelevant because the tiddlers in the central TW only have one link in them, and maybe one or two tags. The system is easy for inductive dumping and tagging when I find something worth saving in my reading and browsing, easy for writing a longer article or project in WF and wanting to find it quickly using TW, easy for a more deductive process of creating a hierarchy from above with new here buttons then adding WF links later. $50/yr may seem steep for the pro account of WF, but I have found it well worth it. Here is a shared section of my Workflowy with more information: https://workflowy.com/s/VQgA01nJMn As you can tell, this system doesn't require much on the TW end to implement. The only real addition needed is a tiddler tagged $:/tags/EditTemplate with a link to the URL of the section in WF where you keep your notes. And maybe the new here button made visible in the tiddler toolbar. That's pretty much it. Hope someone here finds this helpful. For me it is the end of a long obsessive quest that saw me produce many experiments along the way. Finally feel like I got there. The only things I might wish for now are a few additions to WF like embedded images that are not a hack, and pretty links like [[viewed text|URL]]. But to be honest, I am content with this system as is. Blessings, Dave -- 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 post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/d5ad36b9-888e-4f49-9875-97da35789527%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
