danj
danj

@jack My eyes keep wandering over to TiddlyWiki, and your instance is quite inspiring…

Having spent $$$ on it, I’ve wanted to make DEVONThink my knowledge base, but TW seems like a great one-stop shop, especially with the potential to publish a chosen subset of the wiki… šŸ¤“

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danj
danj

@danj Since it looks like running TiddlyWiki on node.js would result in my ā€œtiddlersā€ (there’s a word that’ll take getting used to 😜) being plain text files in the filesystem, I could index them with DEVONThink and perhaps get the best of both worlds… šŸ¤”

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danj
danj

@danj And since @jack is my muse for this topic (I hope he doesn’t mind), this old post of his mentions:

> Tinderbox is my notebook. Evernote is my junk drawer. DEVONthink is my filing cabinet.

I’m thinking TiddlyWiki could be my notebook, while DEVONThink is both my filing cabinet and ā€œjunk drawerā€. Since DEVONThink’s strength seems to be in search, it should be good at both the latter use cases.

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jack
jack

@danj DEVONthink can work really well for any of those tasks. I never enjoyed writing in it, so it never caught on for me as a notebook. TiddlyWiki is weird and fun, which are things I always fall for, but it can take a minute to get one’s head around. Once (or if) that happens, I think it’s hard to beat. It’s also easy to borrow other people’s work (by saving a copy or dragging and dropping individual tiddlers) and that makes it fun to learn. Kind of like the old web.

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jemostrom
jemostrom

@jack Have you tried v3 of DT, it was a huge difference to me and it’s currently the most used application for my work (+ BBEdit, Ulyssses and Marked)

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jack
jack

@jemostrom Yes, v3 was (is) a great upgrade to the aging v2. I feel a little guilty that I really only use DTP as a glorified Finder replacement. But it’s a damn good glorified Finder replacement :)

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