Test of Mozilla-Sidebar for Tiddlywiki - and search for mobile Note-Wiki candidates

#1

As I already announced here I made a test to build a TiddlyWiki Sidebar. I managed to produce an xpi wwith the help of AI.
I do much work in my browser, and switching Tabs to use my TW is not very practical.
To work in the sidebar, a wiki will need the browser storage plugin - and regular backups, but I guess you know this :wink:
I updated projectify and equipped it with the browser storage plugin in Notes . But I would be happy to see other contestants for this task.
Please post your suggestions in this thread.
The xpi has to be installed as experimental plugin on about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox - and of course you do this at your own risk.

:warning: I just realized a problem unlike the version before which had design issues, this version does jump back to the start page when reloading. I’ll try to fix this ASAP

#2

Sorry for not replying earlier - but I stepped into browser-restrictions I had not foreseen previously.
I had tested with a wiki loaded from a URL which worked beautifully, since have come to the point that for this use-case local files are better, I changed this in the release.
I had to find out, that it is not possible to load a local files into the sidebar. I have tried several workarounds now and did not have success.
Anything I can think of (like loading from a local webserver…) seems to complicated for most users.
So I would be happy for ideas to cure this.

#3

IIRC this worked for me when loading a single HTML file wiki into Firefox for Android, but I’m not sure this will work with an extension.

#4

Stupic question: What is IIRC?

#5
#6

So you meant the webserver trick works on mobile. Local files are no problem in normal tabs; just in the sidebar-extension mozilla has limitations.

#7

Yes. I tested by running

$ python3 -m http.server

in Termux and accessing http://localhost:8000

A single HTML file TiddlyWiki gets loaded. An xpi file just gets downloaded.

I did some more research just now and found this 1814123 - Installing an .xpi file is not possible via File Manager.

But when I do it like that, Firefox reports that the xpi is corrupted

#8

Because of the browser restrictions, the sidebar has become a feature for experienced users running TW with node.js or another local webserver. But there it can be convenient for taking notes and managing tasks, a knowledge base or an ai-assistant when working with other websites.

The sidebar will forget online-URLs but remember TWs running locally. It has a button to automatically load a node.js TW.

The xpi comes with a link to a demo-wiki.
If you develop a notetakingTW for small screens, please share the url in this thread.

As usual: Test before and backup carefully.
Here is the xpi can be downloaded from my server.
It has to be installed as experimental plugin.
about:debugging#/runtime/this-firefox

cheers ;- )