One of my main use-cases for Tiddlywiki is to capture my configuration when I build/rebuild a machine. In the old days, on a fresh OS, I could
- login - download from tiddlywiki.com - And begin capturing my config Or I could copy my existing TW knowledge base from a backup, and capture my config there. The key thing is that I really didn't have to install stuff in order to start capturing. My knowledge base was just *there*. Then the browsers decided to get more secure. After a while, it reached the point where I had to install Firefox and a plugin. Not quite a zero-setup, but at least they were both packaged installs where I could just accept the default options. Now, I have to install node.js (where I can take the defaults on a packaged install), use npm to install tiddlywiki (and work out why it is giving me a "npm WARN enoent ENOENT: no such file or directory" error), then look up the commands to init a TW, then set up a Windows service or a Linux daemon to run node in the background, and *then* I can start using TW. Also in the old day, I could use TW on a fully locked-down corporate-controlled PC where software cannot be installed. I brought it in as a guerrilla wiki. I successfully defend its use as "it's just a web page -- you don't want to forbid people to save web pages to disk do you?" Yeah, a reasonably technical person *can* set up a node.js TW, and a flexible person who's not in a hurry and doesn't mind "friction" can make the download-and-replace-old-html-file process work. But honestly, TW5 doesn't have the same appeal that TWC had. It is significantly more complex to setup and operate. I'm probably going to migrate from TWC to TW5 because I can't find a one-click-install wiki that supports text and image and stores each page in a separate file and can (mostly) import TWC data. Its a wonderful creation if you want to putz with your wiki. If you just want to start capturing your data in a text+data wiki, it has lost its original simplicity. -- 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/44465485-14f0-432d-ae01-5ef1a5ebffd1%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
