2024's highlights not to be missed

[JanJo]

Dear TiddlyWikians
A year has past since the last years collection of highlights and I would like to continue this tradition invented by @TiddlyTweeter.
Tiddlywikiwise this year was full of expectation of the great steps at the horizon the MultiWikiServer and so I have the feeling that again I overlooked some great hacks and gems.

So let us continue this and collect our favorites. Please post and link …

• your favorite new Plugins
• new features (best with demos of possible applications.)
• hacks that make the Tiddly-Life more easy and beautiful
• great styles
• macros
• amazing wikis you discovered and would like to share

Guten Rutsch and a great new year to all of you. And thanks to you all for being such a great community.

[JanJo]

It does not seem easy this time, so let me make the start:

• The different approaches to enhance TW with AI

1. @well-noted WikiSage -- Your Tiddlywiki AI Companion
2. @Zheng_Bangyou’s Integration of Anything LLM in Tiddlywiki
3. @linonetwo’s Free Local AI that works totally offline and privately, on TidGi - the first bi-link note taking app powered by tw
   –>I hope the different approaches will merge to make the official plugin as versatile as possible.

• The ability to drag the export-button to add tiddlers to another wiki based on a filter intro
• The backtransclusion Filter
• @BurningTreeC 's attempt to bring the resizable sidebar to the core… which I hope will lead to giving us the opportunity to have a configurable left sidebar.

[JanJo]

I remember four more:

• @buggyj’s elegant Wikitext code editor and
• also @buggyj’s Favicons maker for tiddlywikis
• @EricShulman contributed a new approach to the multitude of canvasses with his paste-up-plugin
• @twMat twaddled together a great control-panel enhancement for less obvious settings - but I cannot find it anymore. So please would you repost it?
  Best wishes Jan

[vilc]

Easy to miss and still work-in-progress, but very important idea and plugin is @telumire’s Tiddlyhost Plugin Library, revealed in this topic and with an online example.

It allows to create and host a plugin library on Tiddlyhost without the need to master the inner workings of the plugin library mechanism. It gives meaning to organizing small individualized tweaks as plugins, for easy access and updates across multiple wikis.

[JanJo]

• A great hack out of @saqimtiaz’ sandbox which might be older, but I discovered it recently: Aggregating images for a spotlight gallery by RegEx and http-Request - #19 by JanJo
• Another interesting development derived from one of saq’s ideas was a refactoring of his great streams editor by @linonetwo, which at first glance seems to offer some improvements.
• As I like streams very much, a sidebar-tab to use it more freely to brainstorm while browsing other tiddlers is my personal contribution to this. Alas I just found out it is only compatible with saq’s original.
• I would also like to mention the results of the image-grid-overlay-competiton which also enters @Scott_Sauyet to these highlights.
• @Mohammad’s link to a website that helps to solve RegEx-Riddles has saved me a lot of time and frustration
• and I finally found @twMat’s controlpanel mentioned above: It is named boosters: Presenting: Boosters - a suite of functional stylesheets
  …and I encountered it in @jeremyruston’s anniversary marathon which was the social Highlight of this year. I hope he will find the time to do some hangouts in the next time.

Making this list, I found out that in this year some tools I hoped to make my tinkering and work with TiddlyWiki even more rewarding stopped before I saw my desires fulfilled.

The difficulty to name the highlights tells me my feeling is right that some big innovations are still stuck in the pipeline - but there are also some less obvious things that could more easily be done for the code-wizards who did great work and reached 99%. So I will finish this year’s highlights with a announcing a wishlist for 2025.

(This is of course not saying that thou shalt not continue to post your further finings here…)