Mourning the passing of Pocketthinker

Posted by JBfrom
Oct 27, 2011 at 01:34 AM

“I?ve never really understood the point of Tiddlywiki? anything it can do would probably be best just left in Org-mode, and if one needs a full-blown wiki, why not go with a full-blown wiki?”

TiddlyWiki is indeed not a good choice for the traditional use case of a wiki - a collaborative knowledge management platform. However, the Cyborganize T1 repository is not a traditional use case.

I chose it for several reasons, after looking at DokuWiki, ConnectedText, and many others:
1. Easy local installation
2. Blazing fast navigation
3. High extensibility
4. With plugins, can avoid almost all markup and write with TinyMCEditor, which copies directly to WordPress.
5. Easy to setup automatic hierarchical navigation
6. Handles all forms of media and files
7. Minor WikiWords annoyances can be patched over
8. 100% cross platform with zero porting or emulation… can be carried on a USB
9. Fluid desktop environment is handy for writers

Markup was the main issue. It is simply impossible as a writer to deal with the challenges of composition while constantly interrupting oneself to write formatting code. And it is impractical to retype existing documents just to get them into a wiki.