TiddlyWiki

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This is a bit of a hack. In an ideal world, clicking the save button should just give you a file save dialogue box and let you choose where to save your spanking new personal TiddlyWiki. Unfortunately doing stuff in web browsers is never that easy, and there's a couple of hoops to be jumped through. See below for a quick guide.

The steps to save your changes as a new, standalone TiddlyWiki are simple, but can be error prone.

1. Make sure that all the text is selected in the edit box above. Copy it to the clipboard.
2. Go back to the browser window showing your editted TiddlyWiki and save the HTML as a new file.
3. Open the HTML file in a text editor like Notepad. Scroll to the bottom and locate the marker lines picked out with a row of asterisks.
4. Select the text from just above that marker back up to the previous marker.
5. Paste the new text in.
6. Save the HTML file.
Suggestions or improvements welcome.

a reusable non-linear personal web notebook

TiddlyWiki is my first serious piece of web client-side development. It makes extensive use of DynamicHTML, CascadingStyleSheets and JavaScript. I first developed it for Safari on Mac OS X, using SubEthaEdit as my text editor, and then tweaked it a bit to work in IE6 on Windows. It's not finished, and has many important MissingFeatures. I don't mind people ReusingThisSite, but do please EmailMe and let me know how you get on.

I'm expecting that after using TiddlyWiki for a while a new WritingStyle will emerge that is appropriate for this medium. Jakob Neilsen wrote an article about writing styles for MicroContent back in 1998 that seems surprisingly relevant: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/980906.html

A TiddlyWiki is like a blog because it's divided up into neat little chunks, but it encourages you to read it by hyperlinking rather than sequentially: if you like, a non-linear blog analogue that binds the individual microcontent items into a cohesive whole. I think that TiddlyWiki represents a novel medium for writing, and will promote it's own distinctive WritingStyle. This is the first version of TiddlyWiki and so, as discussed in TiddlyWikiDev, it's bound to be FullOfBugs, have many MissingFeatures and fail to meet all of the DesignGoals. And of course there's NoWarranty, and it might be judged a StupidName.

I'm Jeremy Ruston, a ChiefTechnologyOfficer based in London. I currently work for a small self-funded startup doing cool stuff for big financial institutions. Previously, I've worked for two VentureCapital backed startups as CTO, Interactive1 and Infuzer. Before that I did a stint in the City of London as Global Head of E-Commerce for a big european investment bank. Long, long ago I used to write computer books and do some computer animation for BBC Television. If you've got any comments or suggestions on this site, do please EmailMe.

TiddlyWiki lends itself quite well to the presentation of hypertext fiction. GinaTrapani did the first that I saw at http://scribbling.net/tiddlywiki-and-non-linear-fiction There's also the astonishing "Die, Vampire! Die!" from DavidVanWert at http://www.davidvanwert.com/wiki/dievampiredie.html

O3noTiddlyWiki

Welcome to TiddlyWiki, an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It's written in HTML and JavaScript to run on any browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to any web server, or sent by email. If you like it, do please EmailMe and let me know. If you're interested in future plans for TiddlyWiki, keep an eye on this site.