TiddlyWiki App: A Smooth User Experience (2025) for Multiple Platforms

Developers
#213

It is currently editable and syncable.

This android app seems to be for a single file. This is different from the scenario for QR code scanning.

#214

Can we share contents from other apps to the wiki opened in the mobile using QR code by android share feature

#215

When you scan the QR code on your phone, you will only see a web page. It does not provide any additional functions except the ones that Tiddlywiki comes with.

#216

Is it possible to open current tiddler of the active wiki in browser. Only the tiddler not the whole wiki. Similar to tm-open-window command

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#217

Can this issue of not being able to select multiple paragraphs of text using cmd key be fixed. Issue related to mouse could be device specific issue

#218

Check the replies to this post related to node js wiki

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#219

I’m using an iOS phone and don’t have an Android device at the moment, so I’m not quite sure how it works specifically. I’ll check it out when I have time.

#220

Still can’t research this issue

#221

@oeyoews i replied wrongly previously. So I edited my reply.

Below is the reply to your message.

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Right side is the editor of tiddlywiki.com in a browser
Left side is the editor in the app
cmd key is kept pressed and I am trying to select multiple sentences of text one by one
In browser it’s working and in the app the already selected text get deselected on selecting the next line

I had to compress the gif to make it less than 4 MB in size

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#222

I understand your operation. This should only be tested on macos
This bug also seems to be a limitation of electron

By the way, the codemirror6 plugin also supports this operation and is not limited to the os

#223

The above is all the content. Due to personal time constraints, there will be no major updates in the near future.

#224

Thanks again @oeyoews ! I recently just switched over all of my TiddlyWiki content to this and am going to only use this for a while - . I assume you still plan to at least maintain this? Do you use it yourself?

#225

Of course, I am very satisfied with this software. If nothing unexpected happens, I will continue to maintain this software. When I recommend tiddlywiki to others, I only need to ask them to download this software without any additional configuration. It is truly out of the box.

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#226

TidWeb (the android app mentioned by @arunnbabu81), also works for node serverd wikis

#227

Version 4.5.0 will introduce a new way for TiddlyWiki to clip web pages. Unlike previous methods, this one does not rely on the Node.js TiddlyWiki API to write content. Instead, it uses the clipboard to write directly into your TiddlyWiki, which feels more intuitive. (It was, to some extent, inspired by Obsidian Clipper.)

Of course, this requires my personally developed Chrome extension, usewiki2, to work. I quickly validated this idea between tiddlywiki-app and usewiki2, and the results are quite promising. However, there are still some areas that need refinement and more thorough testing.

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#228

@oeyoews That video doesn’t seem to load

#229

Will there be a firefox version for this extension

#230

Currently, there are indeed no plans for support, as Firefox seems to have limited compatibility with sidebar views.

#231

Hi @oeyoews and others;

I have been away for TiddlyWIki for some time and returned to see what is state of the art, TiddlyWiki App is looking great.

  • Thank you for your effort and I look forward to seeing how we can help new users adopt tiddlywiki, independant of savers etc…

I created a new wiki from Create Wiki from Template > Import Single file wiki and imported my key organiser wiki, running at 13Mb + It’s working well and opening in the browser.

I have a few observations and issues I hope you don’t mind if I raise them. Of note, is this import raised the wikis version from 5.3.3 to the TiddlyWiki-app 5.3.6 so perhaps some of these issues are related?

The github project

  • I expect later may be the time to add a little more support documentation such as direct links to downloads for each platform however It may help newer users to give them instructions to identify an appropriate download.
  • I used tiddlywiki-app-4.5.2.exe on Windows 11
  • If Tiddlywiki has a new release will you need to repackage it?, or could there be a way to enable the user to upgrade TiddlyWiki-App to the newer version of tiddlywiki so it does not become a burden to you?

TiddlyWiki-app

  • On my windows 11 the black icon in and dark task bar makes the icon almost invisible when not active and not very visible whan active. Perhaps the icon should be tiddlywiki blue?
  • The ctrl-+ and ctrl- - buttons, and ctrl-Middle mouse roller do not zoom in or out - this makes my content rich wiki hard to use in the app
    • Much of this is resolved by opening in the browser, but would be better fixed.
  • How do I change the active wiki back to the one provided, inside TiddlyWiki-App?
  • I notice the installed app is called TiddlyWiki5 in windows but this may be more appropriate called tiddlywiki5-app or tiddlywiki-app.
  • What is the best way to handle backups?, at least a few versions of each tiddler.

Questions;

  • What if any concurrency issues need to be considered using tiddlywiki-app and via the browser at the same time? Similarly with mutiple users on the network (Even if we point to existing documentatrion)
  • In the old Bob implementation, although flakey, I was able to configure which IP address and port to listen on, Is there any way to check and or configure this?
    • This allowed me to publish the wikis on an additional IP Address using port 80 so no port was required, and If I later migrated to a server I just needed to move the IP Address to the server not update any links into the wiki. The whole local host IP Range is also available for local access only at lease in IPV4 IPv4: 127.0.0.1 Range: 127.0.0.0 to 127.255.255.255 eg IP 127.4.4.1 on port 80

Futures;
You provide a convenient included wiki that opens by default, a dream of mine would be to enable non-developers to generate a wiki and include that in the exe install, so a predesigned wiki can be distributed as a fulling working app.

  • How would multiple instances of TiddlyWiki-app be handled? such as port number etc… again if this could be configured.
  • Could we provide more than one wiki such as an application and a wiki of relavent plugins etc…

I am doing a little research into local system access from within TiddlyWiki-app which is a strong advantage for wikis intergrating with the local machine.

Thanks in Advance
Tony

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#232

Thank you for your feedback. There are indeed a lot of questions. I need to take some time out to answer this question (I may be a bit busy in the next month). If you don’t mind, you can browse some other answers in this post, some of which may be the answers you need.