TiddlyWiki resurgent

Posted by Dr Andus
Oct 29, 2017 at 11:56 AM

Dr Andus wrote:
>Speaking of wikis, does anyone here use an online wiki as a private wiki
>for a personal notes database?

Thanks for all the suggestions.

Paul Korm wrote:
>DocuWiki is simple and has all the core features I think a wiki needs to
>have.

Yeah, DocuWiki seems the closest to CT as a wiki (reasonably similar syntax, the look of the thing). But it seems it would be very labour-intensive to transfer thousands of CT topics and get the syntax aligned through some regex wizardry (a skill I don’t have).

I’d also be a bit worried about just relying on some 3rd party hosting. I’d definitely need some kind of a daily automatic backup. Again, sounds like quite a bit of time and effort needed to set it up. (I’d need to research all this, and learn how to do it.)

MadaboutDana wrote:
>Fourthly, Notion, which
>is really quite nice and developing into quite a promising universal
>wiki thingy (notion.io).

From the other suggestions, Notion looked the most interesting to me (the cleanest interface). But I’d need to look further into how easy it is to import thousands of CT topics, and what the options are for daily backups.

I guess my biggest problem is that so much work would be involved in transferring and altering the data and learning about the new solution and the backup that I would have to be absolutely sure that I’ve found the perfect online replacement for CT and that the time and effort spent on doing this would be worthwhile and that the alternative would work for at least five years or so (which is how long I’ve been using CT), before I’d need to move the data again.

Even researching this thing is time-consuming… I guess I’m experiencing being locked-up into Windows and CT. Maybe the solution I’m looking for hasn’t been invented yet. Ideally I’d just like to be able to export my CT topics as a single file and upload it to somewhere, and then do a few search-and-replace to fix any syntax differences. After that it would be all about some kind of a browser extension that would allow me to add copied text as a new entry into this online solution, so that I can annotate it later.

I guess Evernote, Onenote, and Keep offer those kinds of tools, but none of those services are close enough to what I’m looking for.