Hi Danielo,

Thanks for making and sharing this. I currently use a node installation of 
tw5 on my local machine, running out of a dropbox folder. I am most 
interested in adding the "revisions" feature to my tw5 installation. Do you 
have any information on that?

Thanks!
Diego

On Monday, July 17, 2017 at 6:33:33 AM UTC-5, Danielo Rodríguez wrote:
>
>
> Hello TonyM
>
> El viernes, 14 de julio de 2017, 6:15:26 (UTC+2), TonyM escribió:
>>
>> Thanks Danielo,
>>
>> I empathize with the difficulty of sharing technical knowledge when you 
>> are deeply involved with a technical solution.
>>
>
> Thank you :-)
>  
>
>>
>>
>> What you have said helps. As I understand it then, The conceptual leap I 
>> needed to make here is that the data remains inside the browser, 
>> but recorded on cache disk between sessions, across multiple sessions, 
>> so to access your changes you need to use the same browser, and 
>> presumably the same profile or user in that browser. 
>>
>
> That is an 100% accurate explanation
>  
>
>>
>> However you can externalize your data by connecting to a Data base 
>> external to the browser, be that hosted locally or on the internet.
>> I will call this an "Established" instance of the NoteSelf TiddlyWiki.
>>
>
> Cool name, and again, correct
>  
>
>>
>> Now, all that remains for me to wrap my head around is the online vs 
>> download method. 
>>
>> Presumably regardless of which you use, they both install "themselves" in 
>> the browser session where you open them,
>> This would then mean if you copied a local noteself file from one 
>> computer to another and thus/or open it in a different browser session, it 
>> would revert to a "fresh instance".
>>
>
> You got it!
>
>  
>
>>
>> Presumably If I edit and save the local noteself file (with added 
>> content) using tiddlyfox, then move the file, it will start with the 
>> added content + a fresh instance of changes going forward.
>>
>
> That is almost correct except for the tiddlyfox part. You should use the 
> download saver. Well, if you are using tiddlyfox it should work too, but I 
> never tried. Apart from that, the rest is absolutely correct.
>  
>
>>
>> In addition if connecting to an existing database the above "fresh 
>> instances" will in fact be "established instances" 
>>
>
> Not sure to understand the difference between fresh and established 
> instances, but all the rest you said was correct, so I will think this one 
> too.
>  
>
>>
>> Please tell me if I have got it right, and feel free to reuse my text to 
>> add to the documentation if required.
>>
>
> As I said, you are right in the 99% for your assumptions. I'll love to 
> find some time to integrate part of your explanation into the project. 
>

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