Hi, For those who have experience customizing TiddlyWiki’s UI: How much effort and skill would be required to make a site that doesn’t look or feel like a wiki at all? I am thinking of websites like Amazon, Facebook, etc… that do have a “modern web app feeling” (built with something like React, …

Hello @LoryMoney , [image] LoryMoney: I am thinking of websites like Amazon, Facebook, etc… that do have a “modern web app feeling” (built with something like React, etc.), powered by TW but where a user wouldn’t guess it’s TiddlyWiki. Not knowing your background or skill set, I would take a …

Thanks all for the responses, interesting resources emerged from the question, I think @Brian_Radspinner tutorial might be a good place to grasp the basics. [image] pmario: I guess: 6 man months full time - Excluding 2 months of planning and designing new reusable elements. If you want to mak…

[image] LoryMoney: I can see that the 1year full time job implies that it is not a simple task at all. It’s not complicated if you know the existing structure - It’s complex and a lot of work. I have to say, that I am talking about a complete re-imagination of the whole UI starting at the Pa…

I gained more of a website look to an old, never finished and now abandoned blog site just bu manipulating a few existing features on an version of tiddlywiki. Had I used the single tiddler view many would think it was a stangard website. Move more out of the sideBar into the menus Also consider m…

[image] LoryMoney: How much effort and skill would be required to make a site that doesn’t look or feel like a wiki at all? It took me a couple of weeks to shroud my wife’s portfolio TiddlyWiki for a university course. To look at, it’s much like a blog, I guess – certainly nothing like a Tidd…

[image] LoryMoney: How much effort and skill would be required to make a site that doesn’t look or feel like a wiki at all? The more skill, the less time, but it also depends on what you are trying to achieve. If you are working from an existing layout ( your own or someone else’s ) you’ll p…

This… [image] Brian_Radspinner: I can quickly work out an idea to the point of having a usable result for my own use but I’ve never achieved a properly-polished layout that I would be OK handing off to others. and this… [image] Brian_Radspinner: it could be an endless process of working…

I see people respond by suggesting new page templates. IMO this will not drastically change the UI experience. What will is things like having ux to edit widgets, editing inline, a query language that is not unique only to TW, with a rich UI, etc.

[image] Brian_Radspinner: If you are working from an existing layout ( your own or someone else’s ) you’ll probably spend more time just familiarizing yourself with all the TiddlyWiki elements that would still be useful and figuring out how to integrate them. @LoryMoney this made me think of @…

Neotw rolling — A modern notebook based on TiddlyWiki5 This centered page layout doesn’t look like a wiki. My simple center layout is as follows. My TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook

How Much Effort Would a Completely New UI be?

CodaCoder October 22, 2025, 4:14am 12

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is so true of TiddlyWiki – a tweaker’s paradise (or hell). See: When the joys become pitfalls