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Options for Saving and Hosting Your Wiki

 16th October 2024 at 8:30pm

In Installing TiddlyWiki, we decided to use TiddlyHost to save and manage our wiki. TiddlyHost is easy to set up and convenient to use. However, once you have the hang of TiddlyWiki, TiddlyHost may not be the best fit for you anymore. For instance, it requires you to entrust your data to a couple members of the TiddlyWiki community, and backing up requires manual actions. Or you might be frustrated with the limitations on Images and Attachments in a single-file wiki and want to store your wiki as a folder of individual tiddlers and host it on Node.js.

If you'd like to explore other options, you can find a list of all the available savers in the Getting Started tiddler on tiddlywiki.com. Several particularly interesting ones:

  • TiddlyDesktop is a small standalone NW.js app that launches your file-based wiki in a separate TiddlyWiki window on your local computer.
  • The GitHub saver allows you to save your changes to a public or private Git repository hosted on GitHub.
  • Node.js is really TiddlyWiki's native platform, and the single-file versions a kind of package containing the elements needed to allow it to operate outside of Node. Accessing your TiddlyWiki directly through a server running on Node is the most powerful way to work with your wiki, but also requires some technical expertise to take advantage of.
  • Timimi is a combination browser add-on and desktop application that allows you to seamlessly save to your hard drive – much like TiddlyDesktop, but you access your wiki from within a normal browser.
  • Quine 2 allows you to conveniently view and edit TiddlyWikis on an iOS device.
  • Twexe is a special kind of single-file wiki that can be directly run on Linux and Windows without launching a browser at all. It automatically modifies itself to contain your changes.

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