Office 13 Sep 2007 11:59 am
Tiny Wiki
Tiny Wiki, Tiddly Wiki, Taggly Wiki - all forms of the same thing - a personal wiki you can run on your desktop. Just download the file from tiddlywiki.com and away you go. You do need to run it in Firefox however. It didn’t work in Safari for me.
TiddlyWiki is still fairly new and the help wiki link I looked at was practically blank. It took me some while to find any useful help and I finally found this pdf Tiddlywiki cheat sheet at nothickmanuals.info
However because it took me so long to get started I thought I would keep a note here of my progress with Tiddlywiki for reference. So here goes.
Getting started
Getting started actually wasn’t too bad as there is a ‘tiddler’ (an entry) already made called Getting started and you just click on the links within it to update the name of your wiki, subtitle etc.
What is a tiddler?
A tiddler is each one of the entries that you make in your wiki. When you click on a link to them in one of the menus, or linked from another tiddler, then they open up on screen, if they are not open already. They will then stay open until you close them. There is a link in the right menu to close all the tiddlers (which is a bit scary when you first start as you will give yourself a completely blank screen! Put one or two things in your Main Menu first!).
Saving
You do need to save changes to the wiki once you have entered something (not something I am used to doing as I did expect that to be done automatically). It gives you a message to say that it has been backed up and it will create a backup file in the folder where you are storing the wiki.
Changing the theme
Tiddly Themes and Tiddly tools. OK, I’m lost at this point. I’m just trying to change the menus really and have got carried away with changing the whole design. Will come back to this bit later.
Main Menu
Click on your Getting Started link and that will give you a link to your “Main Menu” (the one down the left hand side if you are using the standard Tiddlywiki design, and it only has Getting Started in it to start with). You can add any of your tiddlers to the Main Menu using the link text of two square brackets [[ your text for your link, the pipe character | and then the name of the tiddler you are linking too, closing with two square brackets again ]].
Default Tiddlers
The Getting Started tiddler also offers you the opportunity to list your Default tiddlers or those you would like to open up automatically when you open the file.
Cheatsheet
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