Soliciting favorite wikis, plugins, and resources on notes for Grok TiddlyWiki

[sobjornstad]

Hi all,

Grok TiddlyWiki has a number of resources pages listing particularly important plugins, publicly available example wikis for inspiration, and resources on note-taking and PKM in general. They are extremely short and rather out of date, and I’m hoping to do a quick update in this next version.

I don’t want a laundry list of everything possible – I’ll also be pointing to the community links aggregator for that of course – but if you have suggestions for things you think really stand out, or you want to plug something of your own, I’d love to hear them!

(Edit: typo)

[saqimtiaz]

I would recommend a link to the TiddlyWiki CPL: TW-CPL — 太微插件聚合中心

[vilc]

This is a very subjective thing of course, but if I may suggest just one plugin that deserves adding to Useful Plugins, it would be Auto Complete (demo, forum thread).

[srbt1]

Thanks very much both for GrokTiddlyWiki and for this update, which I am eagerly awaiting

To add to the excellent suggestions above, as my main TW has grown, @Mohammad / kookma’s TW-Commander plugin has become increasingly helpful at making batch-changes to / refactoring tiddlers.

As I use TW for notes (including meeting notes, lecture and seminar outlines, reading notes, and so on), I find myself quite often making indented lists. There are three plugins I find especially helpful here, two from @saqimtiaz, and another which works with one of Saq’s plugins:

• Editor AutoLists, to continue and easily indent list items from within a tiddler being edited;

• Streams, for appending list items to the ends of Tiddlers (e.g., to the end of a tiddler for an article, video, or digital book; and

• Streams Fusion (TalkTW intro and discussion) by @fastfreddy, which allows quick excision of Streams tiddlers into a single, new Tiddler, etc.

Slightly more idiosyncratically, I use a version of TW’s official plugin Bibtex Importer - GitHub link, modified to remove extraneous curly braces { } from article abstracts, and a version of @Mohammad / kookma’s wonderful TW-RefNotes plugin, modified to link to local file versions of the articles I import, to connect references from my Zotero installation with notes in TW, and to open locally-stored PDFs in browser tabs. These are both important plugins in my set-up, as they allow me to connect references to ideas expressed in notes, link from ideas to sources, and so on.

Some other plugins I love but which are perhaps not quite so central to how I use TW are:

• tobibeer’s appear – GitHub link and preview – GitHub link plugins, which can be downloaded from tobibeer’s GitHub page (this seems to be blocked in certain internet-censorious countries, without a VPN) – very useful for previewing a tiddler by hovering over a link to it;

• the plugins which make up felixhayashi’s TiddlyMap, now very kindly maintained by @Flibbles (these plugins are currently TiddlyMap itself, tw5-vis-network, TW5-HotZone, and TW5-TopStoryView – all links point to GitHub pages). I find TiddlyMap a great way to see and make connections between tiddlers; and

• TW ECharts, originally by Ke Wang / Gk0Wk, and (I think) maintained and extended by @linonetwo – which seems an enormously helpful library of graphs and other visualisations (personally, TheBrain is useful as an alternative TiddlyMap of connected tiddlers, especially with dark themes, such as GruvBox dark).

I’d also suggest including:

• Nicolas Petton’s Notebook theme – via Saq’s hosted page for using TWs on small-screen devices like phones; and

• @valpackett’s amazing TiddlyPWA (progressive web app) to use a TW pretty much anywhere, on any device (though “anywhere” does not seem to include China, unfortunately, I think due to the internet censorship policies of its government).

• @EricShulman’s TiddlyTools site, for a range of helpful tiddlers that can be dragged-and-dropped onto your own TW (though I don’t believe any are exactly plugins).

Finally, it might be helpful to link to @linonetwo’s TidGi project – even though it is not a plugin (at least, I don’t think it is!), it does offer a lovely-looking way to run a TW on the desktop, deeply integrated with a range of up-to-date plugins, and I believe can sync with at least Android phones (via another app which I think was also made by @linonetwo) as well as GitHub (for version control).

I’m sure you’ve already noticed this, but the Getting Help tiddler on the current public Grok TiddlyWiki site (updated 2021) links to the old Google Groups space, rather than to TalkTiddlyWiki, so likely needs updating.

I’d like to say thank you again for creating Grok TiddlyWiki, which is a super-helpful learning tool for non-programmers like me (and, I believe, for a number of people who are programmers, too!). A week or two ago, I bunged you a few pounds to keep up the good work, but please take your time to get it as you’d like it: Grok is already a wonderful resource, and any update to explore the new features and functions can only make it even better.

All best wishes

Simon