“Save history” is a feature of Tiddlyhost where you can view and retrieve older versions of your TiddlyWiki. Each time you save the current version is updated and the previous version is added to the top of the save history list.
It’s a good way to access older revisions when you need to for whatever reason, and can also be handy to roll back to a working version if you’re experimenting and manage to break your TiddlyWiki to the point where it stops working.
Each saved version in the save history list has a timestamp, but other than that there was previously no good way to tell one saved version from another. That’s what the new save history “labels” are intended to address.
So now you can add a label to identify particular saved versions. The use case I’m imagining is to annotate more significant revisions, such as “First draft” or “Got widget plugin working”, so you can see them in the save history list, and therefore access them easily when needed, e.g. if your widget plugin stops working and you’re not sure why.
On top of that, when the number of saved versions hits the limit of 100, Tiddlyhost will now prune out unlabelled saved versions before it prunes out labelled versions. The idea is that the labelled saved versions are probably the ones you care more about and would rather keep. This means labelled revisions can be kept indefinitely.
Anyway, I’m interested if you have any feedback on this, or if you’re using it and have any suggestions for improvements. (Note that the Tiddlyhost’s save history feature is not free - it’s available for Tiddlyhost subscribers only.)
A screenshot to show how it looks:
