- TiddlyWiki is a wiki, notebook, information manager.
- TiddlyWiki is a wiki that is programmed in JavaScript and runs entirely self-contained in the browser.
- TiddlyWiki is a revolutionary new way to manage information using microcontent.
- TiddlyWiki is also used as a web framework.
TiddlyWiki in ten seconds...
by TomO (source http://dcubed.com/#TiddlyWiki)
- 10...TiddlyWiki is a web-based wiki that has a very rich Javascript runtime built into every page. If you are reading a TiddlyWiki document, you have the entire TiddlyWiki application, in addition to all the "articles" that make up the wiki itself.
- 9...The "articles" within a TiddlyWiki are called tiddlers, and they are saved with the main HTML page used to view the document. If you open a TW document, you can see all the tiddlers saved at the bottom of the file.
- 8...When you view a TW document over the web, you are usually prohibited from making changes. For interactive, modifiable documents like this one, you typically need to save the document locally to your machine and work with it there.
- 7...Tiddlers can be referenced by their name but, more importantly, they can be arbitrarily tagged to categorize them. Tags may be freely modified, and there are numerous interface widgets within TW to list or find tiddlers by their tags.
- 6...When you click on an internal hyperlink to a tiddler, it will usually open up directly above or below the tiddler you are currently reading and should scroll immediately into view.
- 5...When you hover your mouse over a tiddler, a small context-sensitive tiddler menu appears above and to the right of the tiddler. One of the important items in this menu is edit (or view), which allows you to view and modify the source for a tiddler.
- 4...Tiddler source is a combination of just plain text, plus special formatting commands in wiki-text that allow you to express style and layout for tiddlers without knowing any HTML. It is important to know that the formatting commands, tiddler menus, and just about everything else can be arbitrarily extended by third-party plug-ins to create custom solutions like this one.
- 3...2...1 That is it in a nutshell, but if you are still feeling a little lost, try this tutorial.
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