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Originally Posted by emkay
Have you tried tiddlywiki? http://www.tiddlywiki.com/
It's a really nice wiki app which runs in a single webpage, using javascript. No web server required! I haven't checked compatibility with the iLiad browser. |
I am quoting from this
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sho...ght=tiddlywiki thread where firekat wanted to find a way to create flashcards in a Rex Iliad. I got turned on to the tiddlywiki idea and have since created several special-purpose web pages.
Why am I writing about it in this thread? The tiddlywiki idea is a writer's dream. First of all, it is a single web page that runs within a browser that supports javascript. Firefox works well, and any reader that supports Firefox will run a tiddlywiki.
I prefer to use the monkeypirate variant of the tiddlywiki. It gives a nicer appearance which can be easily customized, and it provides very powerful tagging features for better organization. You can have one hosted here:
http://tiddlyspot.com/ where you can have your own tiddlywiki site for free!
After you have gotten your page on tiddlyspot, you can download it to your computer with one simple click. That is where the fun begins. You can copy the wiki page to anywhere on your computer you like. Then you can use the different copies for different purposes. I use one as a general organizer for ideas, website links, photos, and more.
You must try it to understand how effortlessly you can enter new information and organize it. A novelist might start with a page (they are called tiddlers) that contains a plot outline. Each entry would be clickable and would bring up another page. You can envision the wiki as a kind of cluster diagram where ideas develop by radiating out from the center. See attached image.
The result of the development of this organization of your novel is that you create an outline that is organized much like an idea cluster, or idea map. You can have auxiliary pages in which you develop characters, others where you clip notes and links from the web that support your ideas.
Copying the content of a tiddler is trivial, and can be done with a click and a keystroke. Thus text can be copied to a word processor for draft production. Ideas and segments of your story appear as links on the page. It is easy to move them around to re-arrange your story.
With this sort of organization mechanism, ideas grow quickly and easily. if you are stuck in one area, you can easily work on another. The interface is intuitive and actually quite attractive. You can change the visual theme of your tiddlywiki to reflect the nature of the story, idea, or collection you are working on.
I use one tiddlywiki just to organize all of the web development ideas I am working on. I have another all set up to present family photos. Yet another organizes my wife's business presentation. A tiddlywiki starts off at about 300K in size. It is easy to carry on a USB flash stick, so you can have your "organizer" wherever you go.
I have one set up to present business information including photos and descriptions and links. I have installed it to autorun off a USB stick using Portable Firefox. Now I can plug it into someone's computer and the tiddlywiki page just pops up and is immediately usable.
Here
http://tiddlywiki.com/ is the original tiddlywiki site where you can download a copy for yourself. Alternatively, if you get a wiki from tiddlyspot
http://tiddlyspot.com/ you have a choice of five different variants. You can mouseover the question marks to see a tooltip, or click the question mark to see a demo of the variant. There is help here
http://tiddlywikiguides.org/index.ph...dlyWiki_Guides and much more available if you search around a bit.
One of the great features of the tiddlywikis is that you can import tiddlers (pages) from another tiddlywiki through a simple one-step operation. This means you can move data between your tiddlywikis at will, and make them avaiulable to other people too. You can also import many plugins that will enhance your tiddlywiki.
If you get your tiddlywiki from tiddlyspot, you can always save it back to the web anytime you wish. This is great for sharing information around the world. I have used tiddlyspot to make a genealogy site for my extended family. I host my photos on ImageShack, so all I put in my tiddlers is links to the photos. It is all very easy to do.
You don't need to be a webmaster to create your site with a tiddlywiki. There are no website creation skills needed at all. The tiddlywiki is simply a user tool for organization and presentation. It is easier to use and more powerful than other mechanisms for organization and presentation. In my opinion it is a big step forward in personal technology.
With a tiddlywiki at your fingertips it is easy to follow the advice of a writers' writer I read years ago. A search on Amazon failed to turn up his book. Maybe someone else knows the author and book title. He advocated writing only ten minutes a day to develop the writing habit and banish writer's block. It really works. If you can't think of anything to write about, you can start by writing about how it feels to not be able to think of anything to write about. Soon the words are flowing and you have a story.
Using the ten minutes a day method, I wrote and published several stories. I confess, I frequently got carried away and wrote for a longer period of time! Certainly, with the tiddlywiki to enhance your organization and technify your approach to writing, you can have a pleasurable writing experience. I know I do.
Oh! And what do you have when you are finished? An ebook?