(Crossposting from reddit after being informed this was the more active
group! Hope you don't mind this sort of post!)
I, like many, was WILDLY EXCITED about Roam Research when I first started
playing with it, but then started noticing/experiencing too many flaws to
commit. Having looked into a bunch of open-source, self-hosted
alternatives, TiddlyRoam seems like it's the closest thing I'm going to
get. (The org-roam interface just does not speak to me, and Dokuroam seems
to require creating a virtual server on your machine to run it on, which
does not seem like something I can recommend to the less tech-savvy, or
something that's easy to beat into shape.)
I've seen promising things when looking into TiddlyWiki to see how close it
can get to what I want, but since I'm new to it, I thought I would ask the
community for tips/information before getting halfway through setting up a
non-optimal version. Hopefully this can also help some other noobs from my
sort of background (not afraid of code, have built some Wordpress sites,
but more of a scuba diver than a shark on the reef of tech)!
TL;DR Can you look at what I want to achieve below and tell me how close I
can get with TiddlyWiki? Any tips on any aspects of this are welcome.
Ideally, I want to take my task management app and bullet journaling, my
personal journaling (think morning pages), and my reading notes and writing
drafts (I'm a content writer and a social science student), which are all
scattered across different apps, notebooks, and file structures, and
replace the lot with one system.
Honestly my entire file structure would probably be better served being
accessed through a non-hierarchical second brain, since neither social
science nor content writing nor personal topics stay neatly and discretely
under separate umbrellas, and trying to pick where to put things, and then
remember they exist, and then find them again, is way too time-consuming
right now. (I gather that TiddlyDesktop can open file links from your local
machine? That could be a way to do that, so long as I'm religious about PC
backups as well as Tiddly backups. On the other hand, moving a file would
break the TiddlyWiki link...)
So!
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Roam-style bidirectional links and a map view are a must. Anything else
that makes navigating large amounts of varied content in this system easier
would also be great.
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Daily Notes (a la Roam) would be ideal, which of course I could just
manually create, but if there are any ways to automate the setup of these
pages that would be fantastic. In my brief stint with Roam I had my daily
checkbox task list at the top, links to the pages I worked on that day
underneath and notes on what got done, and then free-form journaling
thoughts after that. I also had notes on dates ahead that I would see again
when that date rolled around. I couldn't get it to automatically add
repeating habit check-boxes, but that would be grand if possible. Some sort
of calendar view to review these pages (in addition to via their links)
would also be good, no idea if such a thing can be done in TiddlyWiki. But
that's extra, if I could just get the TiddlyWiki to automatically open to
"Today" that would be huge in itself. Anyone tried/got this?
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In terms of task management, being able to track tasks in general with
some automation (so things don't slip through the cracks) would be great.
The Francis Meetze way (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzoMhKx0j8g=PLzZCajspPU_UjFn0uy-J9URz0LP4zhxRK=3)
to get real check-box-having, self-categorising tasks is certainly
interesting, though (a) I worry that needing a new Tiddler for every inane
household task would make the wiki really, really cluttered, and (b) I'm
not sure how this would integrate with the bullet-journal-inspired Daily
Note task tracking. Any experience with this? Any ideas?
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Ways to integrate external files so I can find them in context, rather
than through File Explorer, would be very welcome. (See above for ideas and
potential issues.)
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Also wondering about inline images; I know these can be done, but is
there a way to do it without cluttering up the wiki with extra Tiddlers?
(Ckeditor?) Or without bloating the wiki file if you have quite a few? What
are your experiences with this? How much of a problem is it really?
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I'd love to be able to capture the text of whole web pages like I can
with OneNote Web Clipper (when it works). Guards against sites taking down
an article I might need to refer back to. (Even if I take excellent notes,
being able to access the original text if needed can be important.) Is
there currently a way to do that with TiddlyWiki? Spotted TiddlyClip and
TagSpaces Web Clipper but not sure what would best fit the bill.
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Lastly, I'd like to know how much mobile
