TiddlyWiki provides document authors with a relatively ubiquitous yet surprisingly malleable and extensible means of organizing content.
At a very simple level, tiddlers are named chunks of document content (information), potentially with some tags on them for cross-reference.
Think "named, tagged digital 3-by-5 cards", if you wish; it's almost that straightforward. Unless artificially restricted by dumbed-down view and/or edit templates, tiddler content is normally malleable within an open TiddlyWiki document.
TiddlyWiki documents are relatively unique in that respect; the TW core allows end-users - document viewers - to actually modify the content they're viewing.
When you're viewing a TW document "server side" - with an http colon-slash-slash not a file-colon-slash-slash - the question then becomes, how can someone save any changed tiddlers they've created - where can they be put? There are a few possibilities; TiddlyTools save-from-web can work in many cases, as can using an online server type TW document such as a TiddlySpot document, or using server-sides such as ccTiddly or TiddlyWeb.
Tiddler importing and exporting is quite a bit more powerful and capable when you think about applying filters such as by-tag to inter-document tiddler transfers.
At a very simple level, tiddlers are named chunks of document content (information), potentially with some tags on them for cross-reference.
Think "named, tagged digital 3-by-5 cards", if you wish; it's almost that straightforward. Unless artificially restricted by dumbed-down view and/or edit templates, tiddler content is normally malleable within an open TiddlyWiki document.
TiddlyWiki documents are relatively unique in that respect; the TW core allows end-users - document viewers - to actually modify the content they're viewing.
When you're viewing a TW document "server side" - with an http colon-slash-slash not a file-colon-slash-slash - the question then becomes, how can someone save any changed tiddlers they've created - where can they be put? There are a few possibilities; TiddlyTools save-from-web can work in many cases, as can using an online server type TW document such as a TiddlySpot document, or using server-sides such as ccTiddly or TiddlyWeb.
Tiddler importing and exporting is quite a bit more powerful and capable when you think about applying filters such as by-tag to inter-document tiddler transfers.
Information in a tiddler
There are several optional information holders in a tiddler, i.e holders that allows access to the information from other tiddlers.- Tags: Data entered in the tags field
- Slices: Data entered into a simple two column table. The first column lists the field name and the second column the respecive data. The typical example is the table in the beginning of plugins listing Name, Version etc.
- Sections: Are what are defined and separated by headings, i.e the "!" mark (!, !!, !!!)
- Fields: Can be seen when clicking the tiddler menu more>fields. This typically contains meta information about the tiddler but can contain any information.