David, With all due respect I think your solution ideas would be much easier on an Android device. The elephant in the room is Apples propriety approach and how creative solutions are often restricted unless apple has a product of their own. It belies their messaging that says they lead, are simple to use, they are creative solutions providers, when so much of what they do is stop third party innovations in a number of areas making the iPhone look good when the innovation is delivered by them, because they hold the propriety keys and no one else can deliver some innovations on apple products.
In Contrast my LG V20 Phone can take SD cards greater than 128GB, can access an OTG usb drive out of the box and a lot more. Just a little grumble, and something I, you, we, cant change soon. Regards Tony On Monday, October 15, 2018 at 9:18:35 AM UTC+11, David Masterson wrote: > > Interesting possibility. My concern was potential size of the financial > records over time chewing up significant space on the iPhones internal > storage (daughter likes to fill storage with her self-produced videos). > Use of a USB key can add to the storage significantly, but I'm not sure yet > of that possibility. I have found at least one USB key (with SD card) > that connects both to Windows/Mac and to iPhone lightning and supports HTML > (among many others) files. Not sure what the extent of the support is, > though. > > Don't you think this would be use-case to partner with one or more > companies to work on providing an off-the-shelf TiddlyWiki setup that works > with their USB key to provide (virtually) unlimited and secure storage and > application tools that works across all system types that support USB > interfaces? I would think it would be a good way to get a big cash > infusion without taking TiddlyWiki closed-source. > > On Friday, October 12, 2018 at 9:14:34 AM UTC-7, Jeremy Ruston wrote: >> >> One possibility is to think of the iPhone(s) as being the USB keys: iOS >> gives each app a sandboxed area of storage that is accessible if you plug >> the device into iTunes via USB: you can see the files and drag and drop new >> files into it. From the perspective of the PC, the device pretty much is a >> USB stick. (Indeed I’ve often used my iPhones as a sneakernet file transfer >> device just like that). >> >> So, an Internet-less strategy for distribution would be that you >> periodically connect each device to your iTunes machine, pull out any >> changes the user has made to the file, and update it with the freshest >> version. >> >> Best wishes >> >> Jeremy. >> >> On 12 Oct 2018, at 17:05, David Masterson <dsmas...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> The main reason is absolute and easy security. It is really simple to >> give my (not too computer savvy) family a USB key to plug into their iPhone >> when needed to access things like medical records. It would also be nice >> if they could, in a controlled manner, update the information on the USB >> key if they need to (like record that they went to a doctor's appointment >> and what the results were). Everything would be neatly stored on the USB >> key with no chance for a hacker to get to. I could make daily encrypted >> backups of the USB key at home as well for safety. >> >> On Thursday, October 11, 2018 at 4:41:54 PM UTC-7, TonyM wrote: >>> >>> David, >>> >>> Whilst reasons such as this have moved me away from the Apple eco system >>> I believe you may be able to achieve the equivalent by other means. >>> >>> Perhaps you could share the requirements you have that prompted you to >>> choose a USB drive as the way to deliver a TiddlyWiki to the iPhone. >>> >>> In many cases tiddlywiki will work offline because its effectively >>> cached in the browser, or can be held on local disk. If you then want to >>> save it or export changes to another location you can do so once on >>> Internet, or LAN/Intranet. >>> >>> Personally I like having TiddlyWikis served by Node on my phone, so when >>> on the home wifi I can access it from my desktop, at which point I can make >>> extra backups etc... >>> >>> I think this can still be kept simple for users, but if you can voice >>> your goals let us know and we can help. >>> >>> Regards >>> Tony >>> >>> >>> On Wednesday, October 10, 2018 at 11:03:59 AM UTC+11, David Masterson >>> wrote: >>>> >>>> Still looking for information on whether TiddlyWiki can be used on a >>>> USB Stick under iOS... >>>> >>>> My use case would be to setup a secure wiki for my family records on a >>>> (somewhat) encrypted Wiki that is stored on the USB Stick. This Wiki >>>> would >>>> need to be friendly and easy to use for my wife and daughter, so I would >>>> expect that it would not be purely read-only. They might need to take >>>> (controlled) notes on the information and create tasks based upon the >>>> information that I would setup ways for them to do on the stick. The >>>> stick >>>> provides the security that nothing gets out on the Internet unless they >>>> want it to. They might access the stick via their (iOS) telephone or the >>>> home Windows computer. Years ago, classic Tiddlywiki was a *GREAT* option >>>> for this as the add-ons provided a lot of nice interfaces for building the >>>> wiki and the wiki could save any information needed to the stick. >>>> >>>> Is it still an option with restrictions on saving? >>>> >>> >> -- >> 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+...@googlegroups.com. >> To post to this group, send email to tiddl...@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/1e297da0-b307-4e23-8083-ce8dbe978332%40googlegroups.com >> >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/1e297da0-b307-4e23-8083-ce8dbe978332%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> >> >> -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. 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