Hello, I wish I had a better approach than TiddlyHost, the latter not being ideal for what I do: 1 TiddlyWiki = 1 FireFox bookmark. But all I’d like to do is create a huge library full of encyclopedias that I’ve created myself.
I am not sure, if you mean bookmarks or bookmarklets. You can have as many bookmarks as you want, but they will always link to an external source.
If you mean bookmarklets, which are stored directly in the browser, you will have no luck.
Tiddlywiki is too big for a bookmarklet. Bookmarklets are URLs and can be about 64k.
So can you be more precise, what you need?
Can we create our own TiddlyHost? Because in the Q&A for this TiddlyWiki host, we could.
My goal is to create a hosted TiddlyWiki, and register each hosted wiki as an Internet favorite. That’s why I’m asking you if we can create our own TiddlyWiki host.
The power of TiddlyWiki is its interconnections. Having many tiddlywikis in a “library” of them ends up being really demanding in terms of storage and bandwidth (since each one would include the TiddlyWiki “engine”, though the “external core” option reduces this effect a bit). And it also undercuts the value of interconnections. Comparing multiple TiddlyWikis is possible (if CORS is enabled, and you have the right permissions set up), but awkward. t’s much easier to make an explicit link, or to look for patterns, within the same wiki.
However, it certainly makes sense to have a single TiddlyWiki in which to store all one’s internet bookmarks and associated ideas.
How many wiki’s do you think you will want to set up?
ChatGPT is not a good source of information when there is very little training material.
As far as we know here, there are no specified limits on TiddlyHost. Maybe @simon can clarify.
However, in my experience, a TiddlyWiki file slows down when it is about 10Mb size and becomes unusable at 30Mb. That is why it is better to not embed images but instead link to them.
To answer the question I think you’re asking: If you make a TiddlyHost account, you can make multiple “separate” wikis from that account, and each of those wikis can be independently configured to be private, public, or public-and-searchable on the TiddlyHost hub. And you can of course make a separate browser bookmark to take you directly to each wiki. Browser bookmarks don’t “host” anything, and no one else actually has any idea what you’ve bookmarked. They’re just a way to save a link for your own convenience.
All of this is possible with a standard free TiddlyHost account.
However, as @Springer says, if you subdivide your wikis too much, they may actually become less useful to you. While it makes sense to separate wikis with wildly divergent purposes (like a recipe app vs. a daily journal vs. a personal contacts manager vs. a wiki you’re using for work), if your goal is to create a personal knowledge base, it may be more useful to keep your various notes in the same wiki and simply tag them with their relevant topics.
Additionally, while @simon generously offers TiddlyHost as a free service for the community, it’s polite not to abuse that generosity by wasting too much of his bandwidth. So again, you may wish to consider how many separate wikis you really need… and if the answer is “a lot”, and if you do need them to be available online (rather than saved on your phone/computer/local server, which is free and only limited by your disk space — and you can make browser bookmarks to local files), you may want to explore an alternate hosting solution. TiddlyPWA might be a good option if these are intended to be truly private/personal wikis, though you’d need to see whether @valpackett has any updated recommendations for free hosting.
If you’re willing to take a chance and wait for something better, then I think MWS is the best answer. Although MWS was developed with multiple users in mind, I believe it’s also great for a single user in many different areas. Currently, I have many TiddlyWikis that need the enhanced management that MWS provides.
Speaking of MWS, because it uses SQLite to store data, you’ll need a server. On the plus side, you can create as many TiddlyWikis as you want, and each one can be configured individually. I’m not sure how far along MWS development is or if it’s ready for official use, but I’m really looking forward to its release.
check the docs: https://mws.tiddlywiki.com/
and @Arlen22 may tell more details