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I thought these were interesting use cases and wanted to share. I think the 
TiddlyWiki community is the few communities that would understand these 
particular edge cases.

Information hub for elderly care

My grandmother is in her late 90's. To help make things easier I set up a 
TiddlyWiki file in her Dropbox. The folder is shared to my own Dropbox 
account and the same file is set to her browser's homepage. Now I can edit 
the TiddlyWiki from my personal computer and it will sync to her machine. I 
store her favorite websites as icons she can click on plus a list of 
medications and instructions on how to access her email.

This has helped our family immensely as all her medical needs are easily 
referable and indexed. It has allowed her home aids to access notes and 
instructions for her care. And it is all easily printable.

When all else fails

I use TiddlyWiki to build my personal homepage/blog (tritarget.org). I save 
the source in a git repository and run the Node.JS command to build a 
single index.html file which I upload to my hosted webserver. I recently 
visited family in a rural area. I had forgotten my laptop charger and it 
was dead. Left to work on a 10 year old computer I wanted to edit my 
homepage. Normally I would remote connect to a personal server which would 
allow my to run the Node.JS command but its CPU fan broke and was offline. 
I had a choice to either attempt to build a temporary development 
environment on Amazon EC2 or try to build one on my family member's ancient 
computer which was an old mac. I attempted the latter thinking it would be 
easier to install Node.JS on the old mac then on some random cloud service. 
I quickly found that didn't work because Git (the software I use to 
download the source code) would crash.

Then I realized that the site was a TiddlyWiki and I don't need such fancy 
things. I simply went to the website and clicked download (save). With a 
fully working copy in the download folder I made my updates to the site and 
simply emailed the updated HTML file to myself. Now, when I get home and 
charge my laptop a simple drag and drop and the website gets a new blog 
post. You can't do that with a normal web app these days!

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