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I’ve been looking closer at wikis, online commonplace books, and similar personal/work/lab/research notebooks recently and have come across TiddlyWiki as a useful, simple, but very flexible possibility.
While most of its ecosystem revolves around methods for running the program locally (and often privately) or in Google or Dropbox storage, I’ve come across a growing number of people hosting their instances on their own servers and using them publicly as a melange of personal websites, blogs, and wikis.
Has anyone tried hosting one (particularly the newer TW5) through Reclaim before? Of the many methods, I’m curious which may be the easiest/simplest from a set up perspective?
Here are some interesting examples I’ve come across:
* “A Thesis Notebook” by Alberto Molina
* PESpot Lesson Planner by Patrick Detzner (this one seems to be heavily modified)
* sphygm.us
Chris,
I’ve a couple of small tiddlywikis that I am dipping my toes into.
One on raspberry pi using node that I use on home network. The other stored in OneDrive and accessed at home and school using desktop app. The second is simpler.
Thanks John! Yes, hosting it privately on OneDrive or similar services is much easier. I’ve finally managed to get things working using a GitHub Pages set up and redirecting my domain name at it. The details can be found here in gory detail if you’re curious: https://boffosocko.com/2020/04/04/self-hosting-tiddlywiki-with-github-pages/
Chris,
I’ve a couple of small tiddlywikis that I am dipping my toes into.
One on raspberry pi using node that I use on home network. The other stored in OneDrive and accessed at home and school using desktop app. The second is simpler.
Not on Reclaim, but I have tinkered with it many times over the years.
TW keeps evolving, and has a whole TiddlyWiki on Node.js – TiddlyWiki on Node.js: TiddlyWiki — a non-linear personal web notebook
Basically, you run a very simple node.js server, and it creates/reads/saves tiddlers as individual files to disk. You can visit in any browser and edit and so on. Mostly single user – I can’t really recommend TW for multi user, although I did run it for a time on Google AppEngine with some permission settings for multiple google accounts for logins.
One note, TiddlyWiki uses fragment (#) based routing, so unless you do a bunch of extra work to continuously generate a “Static” site, it becomes very hard to deep link into the site, and the SEO / search-ability of it from the outside is pretty terrible.
Since I’m doing lots of stuff with IPFS, I may at some point see about experimenting with this plugin GitHub – xmaysonnave/tiddlywiki-ipfs: Ipfs with TiddlyWiki
Bonus: Fraidycat, which is a VERY cool “reader / follower” thing, lets you track changes to TW-powered sites https://fraidyc.at/
Thanks for the example and advice @bmann! I’m trying to keep the admin tax down, so delving into node.js just isn’t in the cards right now. I did notice that @timmmmyboy has some related node.js notes hiding in his article on Ghost for Reclaim if others are interested.
I’ve been following Kicks Condor (the creator of Fraidyc.at) for over a year or more now, and it was actually some of his explorations that got me into this rabbit hole. 🙂
I’m all too aware of the fragment redirects and js;dr issues involved in public instances of TiddlyWiki, especially since I want to try to get webmentions and other IndieWeb tech working on them.
In the erstwhile, I’ve puzzled out how to redirect a domain name to GitHub pages where I’m hosting a public copy.
Syndicated copies: