I haven't tried Cherrytree. But I've tried lots of others: Org-mode, zim, wikidpad, treepad, cintanotes, simplenotes, evernote ... others I can't remember.
Is your file called "empty.html" ? I don't think a new "empty.html" should be appearing if you are saving successfully through Arlen's system -- it doesn't on mine. What browser are you using? What operating system. TiddlyWiki is actually just an HTML file with javascript. It can not save itself without help from some other service. Up until about February TW had a great plugin that allowed the Firefox web browser to save anywhere to the hard disk. The community rallied around and came up with 17 different approaches to saving. For local saving, there are now two alternative plugins for Firefox (and maybe Chrome) that allow saving to a named sub-directory of your downloads directory. Here's information about the two plugins: https://github.com/buggyj/savetiddlers https://github.com/pmario/file-backups You might think that saving to a sub-directory of your downloads directory is limiting, but there's a trick you can do using symbolic links (called Junctions) that can create a "linked directory" below your TW save directory which in turn points to any directory on your local hard drive. Here's a page that talks about junctions: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ If you navigate the path formed by the symbolic link in your file explorer, the browser is tricked into thinking that it is saving to sub-directory below the downloads directory, and the save can proceed. You can even create a link to your local dropbox file directory (well, I assume you can, but I don't use DB that often). On your mobile device, I think you would use your browser and not your DB app if you wanted to use Arlen's TWITS approach. But (and I could be wrong here) you would need a good data plan, since it depends on a web connection for saving. An alternative is to use AndTidWiki -- assuming you're on Android. Then inside your DB app you can click on your file, select AndTidWiki as the launch application, and after that save as you normally would and it will be saved and synched with dropbox. -- Mark On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 3:52:19 PM UTC-7, debdrex wrote: > > Thanks Mark! I'm not really using it at all yet. I've been using > Cherrytree but want something that I can use on my phone as well as other > devices. I think TW will want to be organized differently than Cherrytree > but haven't gotten that far yet. I am intrigued by TW but also flummoxed :*o > > If I understand correctly, I always open my file through Arlen's link? > I've gotten it to work with a test. It also appears that I can have more > than one file, which is an option I'm considering. Each time I save, a new > empty.html file still appears in my Downloads folder. Is that to be > expected? > > You mentioned a way to save locally to the Dropbox folder on my desktop - > how would I go about setting that up? > > Thanks, Debbie > > On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 12:09:13 PM UTC-7, Mark S. wrote: >> >> This is the first time I've tried TWITS. How are you using it? If you use >> it with just the one specified directory, then you need to put your file in >> the "TW5 in the Sky (Arlen22)" directory. Then log in via Arlen's link ( >> https://twcloud.github.io/tw5-dropbox/#). When you do, there should >> appear a link to your file. You may need to turn off any add-blockers on >> the page. When you click on a link to a TW file (still in your browser), it >> should load in your browser and after that you can click save (or use >> auto-save) and it will save to your DB account directly. >> >> Note that you are NOT running your local DropBox copy of the TW file when >> you do this. If you try to run your local copy from your local DB >> directory, it will want to save in your browsers download directory. (There >> are work-arounds for this if you do want to save locally). >> >> HTH >> -- Mark >> >> On Saturday, April 28, 2018 at 11:02:23 AM UTC-7, debdrex wrote: >>> >>> Hi, >>> I'm just trying to get started with TW and have gotten stuck at how to >>> get files to be saved to a folder other than downloads. Ultimately, I want >>> to have them on Dropbox so that I can access them from any device. I've >>> installed TW5 in the sky but the files still save to Downloads locally. >>> Thanks. >>> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to tiddlywiki@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/a223cd81-51d7-437b-8171-792cf60c6706%40googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
