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Welcome to TiddlyWiki5, a reboot of TiddlyWiki, the venerable, reusable non-linear personal web notebook first released in 2004. It is a complete interactive wiki that can run from a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful [[node.js application|node.js]].
Welcome to TiddlyWiki5, a reboot of TiddlyWiki, the venerable, reusable non-linear personal web notebook [[first released in 2004|History]]. It is a complete interactive wiki that can run from a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful [[node.js application|node.js]].
TiddlyWiki offers a radically improved way of managing your data compared to traditional documents and emails. The fundamental idea is that information is more useful and reusable if we cut up into the [[smallest semantically meaningful chunks|Tiddlers]] and use links, tags and macros to model the structured relationships between them. TiddlyWiki aims to provide a fluid interface for working with tiddlers, allowing them to be aggregated and composed into longer narratives.

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Back in 1997 a colleague introduced me to [[Ward Cunningham's original wiki|http://c2.com/cgi/wiki]]. I was stunned that something so powerful could fit into just 700 lines of Perl, and fascinated by the radical reimagining of security and permissions. Like many other developers, I took every opportunity I could to try out various wikis, and to explore their use at work.
The allure of the wiki for me was the feeling that this might be a paradigm that could eventually topple the prevailing hegemony of print-oriented documents and emails.
After watching people use wikis for a few years, I noticed that power users made extensive use of the ability to open multiple wiki pages at once in several browser tabs, making it easier for them to compare and review pages, to copy text between them and to act as a sort of queue of pages yet to be read.
I could see that this ability to manipulate multiple pages at once was central to the ability to refactor a wiki, and I've found that a wiki that is lovingly refactored tends to be more useful. And yet, standard wiki user interfaces have always been designed exclusively for the presentation and manipulation of single pages at once.
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The downside of writing the first version of TiddlyWiki in this way was that it made it completely impractical to use for editing - when you click 'save changes' it just pops up a window showing the data that would be saved if it were possible for an HTML page to write to the file system.
! Growth of TiddlyWiki
! BT Acquisition
! Osmosoft and TiddlySpace
! Leaving BT
//To be continued.../