John Travers

Tiddlywiki is an amazing little piece of free software that is an excellent personal notebook, or journal. It is also not easy to describe because it does not quite fit into a neat category. It is a wiki, and a stand-alone html file, it can be located on the web and have many authors, and it can be a personal file that you carry around as a ‘wiki-on-a-stick’.

If you click on the link above you can try out the navigation for yourself. A tiddlywiki is made up of ‘tiddlers’ which are usually paragraph length entries. These have their own tags (on the right of the illustration) and they are linked to and closed as you like. A main menu is on the left. It is wonderful for adding material to your personal notebook. Just create a new tiddler, add some tags to it, and you are done. You can find all your records on a particular topic or topics simply by clicking on a tag.

If you want to have a go, on the Home site, see Getting Started, and in the body of that you will find Download Software and an empty.html that you download and is your starting point. In about 30 minutes you will have mastered the basics.