Folks,
Background
I have been exploring a number of desirable features to add to the TiddlyWiki platform, primarily around interwiki communications and sharing. Many of you would be familiar with some plugins that do this including TiddlyClip plugin and others.
Various additions to TiddlyWiki in recent years and the maturation of browser tools suggests to me the time has come to revisit something which would add substantial value when using multiple single and server TiddlyWiki, both self managed and found on the internet.
I am asking for comments and or expressions of interest to suitable experience users and developers to build such a tool.
- I have personally found LLM’s help me quickly identify the technologies and capabilities need for such solutions and can even create prototypes. Beyond that I would like the support of the core and plugin developers.
Simple outline
Develop a suit of tools and or browser addons that allows us to publish a local host tiddlywiki server (I will call it a Hub Wiki) that we can send and retrieve tiddlers and sets of tiddlers in plugin or JSON forms as well as publish a site that we can iframe to, to access a directory, or open in a tab and drag and drop to/from.
- If not installed with a helper plugin allow a bookmarklet install to enable a new method to send tiddlers to the hub, retrieve them or export / import via a filter.
- Cross server, browser and tab features will then become a possibility, all while enforcing strict security and permissions using scopes, permissions and keys.
- A browser addon component may be needed for each browser
An enabler not just a tool
I envision this concept may provide an interwiki platform that could be leveraged by many users to develop new and advanced solutions. It would be independent of how it is hosted. I have numerous project ideas of substantial value that may be implemented on top of such a solution including but not limited to;
- Send tiddlers to the hub for later installation on other wikis such as plugins or test data
- Backup changes to online read only wikis and restore
- Develop a personal plugin library to distribute to your own wikis
- Send references to one tiddler on a given wiki to another as a reference or to do item
- Log activity or changes by ourself on any given wiki allowing recovery and personally observable analytics.
- Mediate further processes and automation from the hub wiki