What do people use Tiddlywiki for?

[Scott_Sauyet]

@Bob_Jansen

I wonder if you could quickly (ie, one para at most) describe what you use TW for.

No, sorry. I’m much too wordy for that.

21 months ago I described a substantial documentation project done in TW and then listed a number of other things I’d been doing in TW:

@Scott_Sauyet

• A meeting notes/agenda tool
• A long-form document that includes survey questions/results, research findings, lists of people and tools and how they interrelate
• A second documentation-generator for user systems built using a tool I created and maintain
• Documentation for two other systems, plus a not-really-published, but currently available Documentation Edition that became the basis for my various documentation projects
• Two separate wikis to consolidate links to scattered documents, tagging and describing each one, with the long-term goal of using the tags to write an eventual organized and maintainable overview of this scattered documentation, and maybe one day consolidating it
• My Periodic Table Demo, which started out as a demo of using data tiddlers but has morphed into what I hope one day could be an interactive educational tool for Chemistry students
• A querying tool to select contact and demographic information from a large set of data tiddlers representing voters in my small town
• An internal website for members of my local Democratic Town Committee, with large amounts of interactive data, acting like a combination of database, report engine, and website
• A dozen or more smaller wikis for my own consumption

Since then, I’ve also started a number of other projects:

• A TW version of my town’s charter
• A wiki to serve as a combination of website and administrative tool for the chess club at GigantiCorp, where I work. That is behind corporate walls, but I do have a somewhat anonymized copy of an older version.
• The wiki, Tiddlywiki for SQL Developers
• A number of version of the Christian Bible as single-wiki documents, with every book, chapter, and verse in tiddlers of their own. First I did the King James Version and then started building out a mechanism to create multiple versions. Currently this includes six versions, four in English and two in Spanish
• Another wiki to store the policies for the Regional School Board of which I’m a member
• And every now and then I work on my Bullshit Bingo wiki, skewering corporate-speak

Now, of this second batch, only the town charter can be considered anything like complete.

Interestingly, there is nothing here about a personal journal. Not only that, almost all my wikis are for other people, instead of (or as well as) for myself.