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TiddlyWiki: An Open Source Alternative to Notion or Obsidian (thenewstack.io)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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cross-posted from: https://feddit.uk/post/16316509

TiddlyWiki is a “non-linear personal web notebook,” as well as an exemplar project in the open source community. It can be a note-taking or information-ordering system in a similar vein to Obsidian or Notion, although TiddlyWiki was launched back in 2004. It can also be thought of as producing a wiki with interactive components.

However, as I discovered to my cost, TiddlyWiki has never had a strong “start here,” because it is not tailored to one specific task. Obsidian, by comparison, has the advantage of a clear vision of what it does. TiddlyWiki bewilders you with options at first because it hasn’t been designed to be sold. The community focus is on adapting it to different use cases.

So I’m going to take the advice in this explainer and use TiddlyDesktop while mentioning that there are plenty of other arrangements. It is, after all, just HTML and JavaScript. Let’s get started…

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I think I tried this out back in the day when searching for what I would use for PKMS! Don't remember why I didn't settle on it. I like FOSS stuff but the switching cost from Obsidian would be high—even if there was something to auto-move everything over I always like to manually move things so I can strike out unused things, improve existing notes, restructure my notes, etc. but maybe to support FOSS I should just find an auto-import if it exists and do it anyways.

Not sure if this would be considered off-topic for [email protected] but you might want to crosspost there. I would welcome it. [email protected] and [email protected] would also like this.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

You are perfectly welcome to cross-post this to other communities. I will pass it over to the last two but might leave Obsidian alone for now as it isn't specifically about it.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

If you find an importer let us know. I haven't finished manually importing to Obsidian from OneNote (after previously importing from Evernote) but would be interested in giving this a try.