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Smandoli
Smandoli

Reputation: 7019

A step-up from TiddlyWiki that is still 100% portable?

TiddlyWiki is a great idea, brilliantly implemented. I'm using it as a portable personal "knowledge manager," and these are the prize virtues:

  1. It travels on my USB flash memory stick and runs on any computer, regardless of operating system
  2. No software installation is needed on the computer (TiddlyWiki merely uses the Internet browser)
  3. No Internet connection is needed
  4. In terms of data retrieval functionality, it mimics a relational database (use of tags and internal links)
  5. Set up and configuration are so simple as to be almost zero. This would also mean dependencies are so minimal as to be transparent, or nearly so.

Let's say I've got a million words of prose in 4,000 tiddlers (posts). I'm still testing, but it looks like TiddlyWiki gets very slow.

Is there an app like TiddlyWiki that keeps all the virtues I listed above, and allows more storage? (or rather, retrieval!)

NOTE: Separation of content and presentation would be ideal. It's nifty that TiddlyWiki has everything in a single HTML document, but it's unhelpful in many ways. I don't care if a directory of assorted docs is needed (SQLite, XML?), as long as it's functionally self-contained.

Upvotes: 40

Views: 34037

Answers (8)

user1461607
user1461607

Reputation: 2760

2020 answer, from 2017

Check out liddly, it's a local tiddlywiki server written in go that fits all your requirements and can run off a USB. It stores tiddlers in a SQLite database, albeit without relational links, making the tiddlywiki interface (presentation) separate from your data(content). It was last updated in 2017 but it still works with the latest tiddlywiki5, you will just have to compile it yourself.

Upvotes: 0

Keng
Keng

Reputation: 53101

you probably already know this but there's a new version of tiddlywiki out that is still in beta but has been rewritten to allow a more robust environment for the future.

http://tiddlywiki.com/

Upvotes: 0

Smandoli
Smandoli

Reputation: 7019

After some time and serious consideration, I will post my own answer.
There is nothing that matches TiddlyWiki.

As for voluminous information, TW can pretty much handle it. (My early discouragements were due to malformed code.) Difficulty accessing information through the interface becomes an issue before any speed problems. This isn't to fault the interface -- it could be more powerful, but that would sacrifice lightness.

Upvotes: 35

pbr
pbr

Reputation: 480

Indeed TiddlyWiki can work with VERY large tiddler stores, they don't need to be in the current TiddlyWiki document either.

See "import tiddler" and friends over at http://tiddlytools.com

Upvotes: 8

Philip
Philip

Reputation: 3799

I have recently discovered DokuWikiStick which runs a version of MicroApache. Recommended by LifeHacker... Starting size is about 10MB.

Upvotes: 0

Michel
Michel

Reputation: 21

http://tiddlyweb.peermore.com/wiki/ maybe exactly what you are looking for.

You can use any TiddlyWiki variant and the data can be delivered via a server and on-demand.

Upvotes: 2

Roger_S
Roger_S

Reputation: 529

Before creating Rails, David Heinemeier Hansson wrote a wiki app called Instiki. Like TiddlyWiki, you don't run it from a separately running server*, so it's easy to run locally and move around on a USB drive (exporting the entire content to a zip file with all the html files or all the files in Textile markup). The entire Instiki tgz download is less than 5mb and the app has only one external dependency: Ruby.

So you can run Instiki anywhere you can run Ruby (for instance, on a Nokia N900 phone).

I never built any Instiki sites as large as you describe, but it ought to handle 1 million words in 4,000 pages a lot easier than TiddlyWiki handles 4,000 tiddlers.

Roger_S

* Oh, not to confuse anyone: Instiki uses the embedded webserver WEBrick

Upvotes: 3

Mike Keller
Mike Keller

Reputation: 615

You could try installing Portable Apps on your USB drive and adding the XAMPP Package which has Apache, PHP, MySQL all installed and running MediaWiki or other Wiki software on top of it.

Upvotes: 2

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