Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a non-linear personal web notebook that anyone can use and keep forever, independently of any corporation.

TiddlyWiki is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. It can be used as a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful Node.js application. It is highly customisable: the entire user interface is itself implemented in hackable WikiText.

Learn more and see it in action at https://tiddlywiki.com/

Developer documentation is in progress at https://tiddlywiki.com/dev/

Join the Community

Official Forums

The new official forum for talking about TiddlyWiki: requests for help, announcements of new releases and plugins, debating new features, or just sharing experiences. You can participate via the associated website, or subscribe via email.

https://talk.tiddlywiki.org/

Note that talk.tiddlywiki.org is a community run service that we host and maintain ourselves. The modest running costs are covered by community contributions.

For the convenience of existing users, we also continue to operate the original TiddlyWiki group (hosted on Google Groups since 2005):

https://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWiki

Developer Forums

There are several resources for developers to learn more about TiddlyWiki and to discuss and contribute to its development.

• tiddlywiki.com/dev is the official developer documentation
• Get involved in the development on GitHub
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  • Discussions are for Q&A and open-ended discussion
  • Issues are for raising bug reports and proposing specific, actionable new ideas
• The older TiddlyWikiDev Google Group is now closed in favour of GitHub Discussions but remains a useful archive: https://groups.google.com/group/TiddlyWikiDev
  • An enhanced group search facility is available on mail-archive.com
• Follow @TiddlyWiki on Twitter for the latest news
• Chat at https://gitter.im/TiddlyWiki/public (development room coming soon)

Other Forums

• TiddlyWiki Subreddit
• Chat with Gitter at https://gitter.im/TiddlyWiki/public !
• Chat on Discord at https://discord.gg/HFFZVQ8

Documentation

There is also a discussion group specifically for discussing TiddlyWiki documentation improvement initiatives: https://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywikidocs

Installing TiddlyWiki on Node.js

1. Install Node.js
   • Linux:

     Debian/Ubuntu:
     apt install nodejs
     May need to be followed up by:
     apt install npm

     Arch Linux
     yay -S tiddlywiki
     (installs node and tiddlywiki)

   • Mac

     brew install node

   • Android

     Termux for Android

   • Other

     See http://nodejs.org

2. Open a command line terminal and type:

   npm install -g tiddlywiki

   If it fails with an error you may need to re-run the command as an administrator:

   sudo npm install -g tiddlywiki (Mac/Linux)

3. Ensure TiddlyWiki is installed by typing:

   tiddlywiki --version

   • In response, you should see TiddlyWiki report its current version (eg "5.3.6-prerelease". You may also see other debugging information reported.)
4. Try it out:
   1. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server to create a folder for a new wiki that includes server-related components
   2. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --listen to start TiddlyWiki
   3. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser
   4. Try editing and creating tiddlers
5. Optionally, make an offline copy:
   • click the save changes button in the sidebar, OR
   • tiddlywiki mynewwiki --build index

The -g flag causes TiddlyWiki to be installed globally. Without it, TiddlyWiki will only be available in the directory where you installed it.