tiddlywiki/editions/tiddlywiki-surveys/tiddlers/2025-community-survey/Community Survey 2025 Answer 00195.json

a non-linear personal web notebook

[
    {
        "first-heard-survey": "Other",
        "other-survey-source": "Friend who uses tiddlywiki shared the link with me",
        "are-you-a-dev": "Yes, I would",
        "first-used-tw": "2017",
        "joined-tw-community": "Yes",
        "started-tw-community": "2018",
        "use-ttw": "I read/lurk, but do not post",
        "use-mailing-list": "I read/lurk, but do not post",
        "use-reddit": "I read/lurk, but do not post",
        "use-discord": "I read/lurk, but do not post",
        "use-github-discuss": "I do not engage with this community",
        "published-plugin": "Yes",
        "main-use-cases": "Note-taking;Journalling;Programming;Other",
        "other-use-cases": "I use it as a tiny art gallery website (very minimal CSS, only one tiddler open at a time)",
        "use-for-work-or-study": "No",
        "share-wikis": "Yes, and I am the only editor/administrator of my wiki(s)",
        "publish-to-web": "Yes, using a single-file wiki;Yes, served through Node.js",
        "publish-to-intranet": "Yes, using a single-file wiki",
        "value-of-tw": "TiddlyWiki provides a way for me to serve my personal website content in a package that lets people download it as a single file, which is quite important to me. I do wish the Node.js lazy loading features were actually viable (last I looked primarily search didn't function).",
        "tw-ability-level": "I have customised TiddlyWiki through options and plugins;I am comfortable using WikiText widgets (e.g. <$transclude>, <$list>...);I am comfortable writing filter expressions;I have written custom HTML;I have written custom CSS styles;I have written custom JavaScript",
        "save-method": "Multi-file wiki served through Node.js",
        "backup-method": "DIY (any other solution)",
        "diy-backup-info": "My primary note storage is on my NAS, with SyncThing to synchronize it across devices eg. phone, laptop. This backs up my _notes_ which I edit with various other tools, not TiddlyWiki, and TiddlyWiki is a publishing layer on top.",
        "wiki-setup-info": "<details><summary>Wiki Information</summary><pre><code>\nTiddlyWiki Version: 5.3.3\nCurrent palette: $:/palettes/Vanilla\nCurrent theme: \nCurrent layout: \nBrowser language setting: en-US\nDefault type for missing tiddlers: \nAuto save setting: yes\nCode wrapping setting: pre-wrap\nSticky titles setting: no\nSidebar layout setting: fixed-fluid\nAuto focus field setting for new tiddlers: title\nCurrent storyview setting: classic\nToolbar text setting: no\nToolbar icon setting: yes\nButton class setting: tc-btn-invisible\nNavigation address bar setting: no\nTiddler opening behaviour setting for navigations from outside the story river: top\nTiddler opening behaviour setting for navigations from within the story river: below\nCamelCase linking setting: disable\nKeyboard shortcuts that have been customised: \nDisabled plugins: $:/plugins/noahlange/markdown-plus,$:/plugins/rmnvsl/krystal\nPlugins: \n  $:/core - 5.3.3\n  $:/plugins/benwebber/css-palette - 0.3.0\n  $:/plugins/noahlange/monaco - 0.5.0\n  $:/plugins/oeyoews/markdown-extensions-startup - 0.0.2\n  $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/highlight - 5.3.3\n  $:/plugins/tiddlywiki/markdown - 5.3.3\n  $:/temp/info-plugin - \n  $:/themes/tiddlywiki/snowwhite - 5.3.3\n  $:/themes/tiddlywiki/vanilla - 5.3.3\n</code></pre></details>",
        "tw-customisations": "- \"New Tiddlers\" sidebar customization\n- SO MUCH CSS customization\n- Because noahlange/tiddlymark exists, I can render my Obsidian vault as a single file wiki, still using TW in a way w/this.\n- I had to edit Core TW's JavaScript to enable Obsidian Style [[wiki|pretty links]].",
        "positive-about-future": "Yes",
        "tw-future-confidence": "Yes",
        "project-decision-trust": "Yes",
        "project-strengths": "I'm glad TW is still under development, and I'm glad it still has a healthy community of users - even though I don't use TiddlyWiki directly anymore, there's still many things (abstraction from the file system, hackability, ability to produce a single HTML file that can function like a \"book\" for my writing that can go anywhere and has longevity) that I appreciate about it, and while I couldn't go back now, I could see a future TW with improvements winning me back!",
        "project-weaknesses": "After converting my Tiddlers from TW syntax to Obsidian style markdown, there's no way I'd ever go back to the TW syntax, sorry. Markdown support was in a poor state, especially the extent to which I had to hack it to read Obsidian style markdown (pretty links). I'd **love** to be able to use TW as an alternate UI to view and edit my notes while _also_ being able to use logseq or obsidian, but the Node.JS version not supporting bidirectionality or YAML metadata OOTB makes this nonviable.",
        "ok-to-publish": "Yes, I am happy for my responses to be published",
        "title": "Community Survey 2025 Answer 00195",
        "tags": "[[Community Survey 2025]]"
    }
]