FeatherWiki: A lightweight tiddlywiki alternative (63 kilobytes)

#21

FYI for those interested in having a suite of tools in their arsenals.

https://feather.wiki/

Very early and basic mechanism for transclusion recently added.

The latest versions of FeatherWiki (1.3.1 versions of Dove, Finch, and Chickadee) allow install of the “Transclusion / Page Insert” extension.

Although it currently only handles one-level-deep transclusion (I’m imagining a recursive transclusion process will happen someday), even just one-level of transclusion is handy to have in a TiddlyWiki sidekick tool for quick/light/agile note-taking on the side.

#22

All things considered, this is very impressive for something so new. it certainly has a ways to go in development, but with a massive resource to learn from such as TW, I think it could become it’s own SPI in no time!

Personally, I share the same sentiment as jonnie45 in that I’m also heavily invested in TW, and all it’s associated resources, but I would still like to keep tabs on FeatherWiki, maybe there is something for us to learn from it’s growth (hatching?)

As far as having a WYSIWYG editor in TW, I always wondered if this could be achieved by having the text placed and rendered in a temp tiddler, and when changes are saved, have the text moved to the finished tiddler, however I’m not going to pretend I have anywhere near the necessary level of know-how to know if that would work, but since we’re on the topic, spit-balling ideas on how it could be done effectively couldn’t hurt!

Food for thought – JMH

#23

Absolutely nothing wrong with that regardless of what it means, including “I use TiddlyWiki for all tasks no matter what they are.” That’s totally reasonable.

I’m a multi-tool user: some things in TiddlyWiki, some things in Google Calendar, some things done with Treesheets, some in Google Sites, ad infinitum ad nauseum.

Because of Feather.wiki’s lightness, my happy use case for it: it is my on startup “home/portal” page for my web browser, giving me quick access to an organized bookmarks page and portal to some of the things I like to have handy, like an embedded view of my Google calendar. And ridiculously convenient to edit.

My other purpose for Feather.Wiki is quick no fuss no muss note-taking when I don’t have any time for serious intertwingularity mapping at the moment. Intertwingularity mapping, serious information slicing and dicing, is for later in TiddlyWiki. Nothing handles intertwingularity mapping like TiddlyWiki.

#24

I can see that as a good use-case, similar to the appeal of a plaintext note for jotting something down quickly, but with some extra utility on top.

I use my TW primarily as just a all purpose journal, some basic keybinds allow me to quickly note things without having to bother with sorting or modifying tiddlers past just clicking a button. I’m quite lazy, you see haha

and I’m not sure why or how it came into my mind, but I’m a bit curious now if it were possible to use TW to create a Feather.Wiki, considering how small it is, and how TW has been used to create some really remarkable things.

Feather.wiki could absolutely fill that niche desire for a minimalist’s wiki notebook, maybe better than TW since it’s more geared for tinkering and building upon it as a foundation, and as a result has a bit of a learning curve to it.

I’d be interested to see how it develops, and what changes are made over time. Fingers crossed it gets the support and love TW has over it’s many years!