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by hombre_fatal 2156 days ago
Btw, TiddlyWiki is very, very simplistic and limited. I've used it for years for throwaway note-taking yet have a hard time equating it to the other "full" wikis.

It just became an append-only log for me with very limited organizational power. Though I do like it for anything just long enough where a single .txt file doesn't cut it. Tiddly is great for that case because it encapsulates the common task of jumping between the same sections over and over -- the real downside of a large file. But you aren't alone in finding it's not so great on a larger scale.

So if you did like the idea of a wiki but weren't diddly with the Tiddly, might be worthwhile to check out something like DokuWiki or MediaWiki.

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https://tiddlyroam.org/ is another alternative, but Tiddly* kind of feels like a dead end. The big upside is the lack of dependencies (just a file), but when the wiki grows you soon have a 70 MB html file that kills your browser. I know there's the node.js version too, but then I might as well use MediaWiki (even more portable).