mardi 2 janvier 2007

What a TiddlyWiki is? (my personnal view on that...)

Let me point you to the concept of TiddlyWiki (if you don't know it yet).
  • if you are a MS OneNote user, this is a perfect (and better) replacement (free and OpenSource)
  • it is a sort of personnal blog (it's off-line, but can be shared online)
  • it's a single HTML file that has edition capabilities within your preferred browser (FireFox 2.0+ of course!) without any extension to be installed
  • you write "blog entries" (aka Tiddler). They are automatially linked together if you use a special case scheme (called CAMEL-case, JustLikeThis)
  • you can define to which categorieS your entry belongs to (called Tags)
  • you can view what Tiddlers are tagged for a particular Tag
  • you can view which Tiddler points to a Tiddler
  • you can add behaviour to your TiddlyWiki by adding special Tiddler (called Plugins); you can retrieve them online on the Web
To start with, go to TiddlyWiki and read through. Personnaly, I'm using an adapted TiddlyWiki (compatible with the original) called MonkeyPirateTiddlyWiki. And added many plugins. Then, you'll be able to go to :
  • TiddlyDoc
  • TiddlySpot (online and free hosting: connected and disconnected mode available!)
  • del.icio.us (big list of plugins)