TiddlyWiki App: A Smooth User Experience (2025) for Multiple Platforms

[oeyoews]

Added icons to all the menus, and it looks pretty good.

[stobot]

This is AWESOME, very impressed so far. I love that it’s node in app form - closest I’ve gotten to BOB.exe which I was a big fan of.

I am having some issues with an import of a single-file wiki I’m trying to figure out, let me know if there’s something obvious… (Windows 11)

[oeyoews]

I tested it with tiddlywiki.com single file import and it worked fine. Can you send me a copy of the imported single file wiki and your app version?

[stobot]

I appreciate the offer, but my content is work-related / confidential. From a problem solving process standpoint, I’ll try incrementally adding tiddlers via drag-and-drop import a bit at a time and see where I get problems. Or is there another approach?

As for version, I started with the one I found on github and then used the in-app upgrade process which worked fine so it’ll be that one (2.4.3).

Note that other wikis work fine, it must be something like a plugin that’s not working. I’ll circle back when I figure it out.

[oeyoews]

I have encountered similar errors in other wikis before. I forgot the reason, but I clearly remember that the error disappeared after I restarted.

[oeyoews]

Any way to create "Show in system explorer" function?

in Obsidian, when you right click a ralative path , you have option to “Show in system explorer” i used “attachedment plugin” to generate _canonical_uri: tiddlyer with relative patch, is there any way in TW to mirror this Obsidian function? [image]

The tiddlywiki app supports this feature in another way, without any dependencies. You can try this feature by right clicking around tiddler.

[arunnbabu81]

@oeyoews I am liking your app. I have a few doubts

1. Is there a way to import single file wikis with .htm extension along with .html
2. Also if we are using context menu plug ins of tiddlywiki, the default right-click context menu of the app is not getting displayed. Any way to fix this ?
3. Can a sidebar or a floating window be added to the app to do web search within the app itself ? I have seen such an option in an app called kosmik. There shall be a button to toggle it on and off

[oeyoews]

1. Fixed, version 2.6.4 now supports .htm extension files.
2. This problem does exist, let me think about how to adjust
3. Ctrl+F is supported by default. I just added a search menu button. You can now click the app’s update button to update.

[oeyoews]

I found that it natively supports differential updates, which allows updates to be downloaded as small packages for quick updates without needing to download the entire installation package.

[oeyoews]

@arunnbabu81

Also if we are using context menu plug ins of tiddlywiki, the default right-click context menu of the app is not getting displayed. Any way to fix this ?

The simplest and most reasonable way is to use ctrl + right click to trigger the right-click menu plugin of tiddlywiki, so that you can use two right-click menus. You may need to make some modifications to your contextmenu plugin. Like this, my example below

fix: use prefix ctrlkey for contextmenu

[arunnbabu81]

I am using wikitext based context menu created by @Yaisog …will have to check if it is possible to add a modifier key for the context menu

[arunnbabu81]

@oeyoews

Ctrl+F is supported by default. I just added a search menu button. You can now click the app’s update button to update.

I think you misunderstood my statement. I was talking about opening a floating windows or sidebar for doing web searches like google, not the highlight-searched words in the current window of the app.

Here is a screenshot of this functionality in kosmik app

[oeyoews]

I understand. I have indeed seen this feature in the browser, but it is not part of my plan. However, if you want to add a search function, I can indeed add such a context menu.

[arunnbabu81]

What will happen if this search function is selected from the context menu ? Will it open the browser ?

How many wikis will work with this app at the same time ?

Can there be an option to delete a wiki which is already loaded by this app?

[oeyoews]

@arunnbabu81

What will happen if this search function is selected from the context menu ? Will it open the browser ?

How many wikis will work with this app at the same time ?

yes

@arunnbabu81

How many wikis will work with this app at the same time ?

Can there be an option to delete a wiki which is already loaded by this app?

Theoretically, an unlimited number of wikis can be loaded. However, due to software limitations, a specific wiki cannot be closed individually unless the software is exited. Tiddlywiki-app caches the currently loaded wikis, and when a wiki is reopened , tiddlywiki app reuses the previous instance.

[arunnbabu81]

Can there be an option to delete a particular wiki from the settings area of the app. I am finding it difficult to delete my test wikis

[oeyoews]

Of course, preparing now.

[oeyoews]

It’s basically done. Use trashItem to put it in the trash can to prevent users from permanently deleting the folder.

[arunnbabu81]

I am getting this error message when I am trying to import a single file wiki. Initially the import used to work correctly, but now the error is happening everytime i am testing

This occurs when I select a onedrive folder as the target import folder

[oeyoews]

I haven’t tested this situation with onedrive. I will test what happens later.

You might want to check the latest log file to see exactly what happened.