How do you keep a personal wiki (TiddlyWiki) current and in sync in multiple locations? [closed]

Question

If one were to use TiddlyWiki as a personal database for notes and code snippets, how would you go about keeping it in sync between multiple machines. Would a svn/cvs etc work. How would you handle merges?

Answer 1

These options are all good, but I would just put it on a USB key.

Answer 2

One option is the up-and-comer DropBox. A free filesharing service that gives you 2GB free, and no limit to the number of computers you share on.

Define a shared folder, put your tiddlywiki files in there, and then point the local editing to the shared drive. Any changes are automatically reflected.

Note: I have no connections to DropBox other than the fact that I've been reading lots about it, and am trialing it for my personal use.

Answer 3

Use TiddlySpot, its online all the time and private

Answer 4

Tiddlywiki is well suited for version control (since it is a single text file).

Just put it on a personal SVN or Git repository accessible from the web, and you can keep it in sync with many places (office, home, laptop, etc.).

I use this method, and it works pretty well. You can even have several versions of your notes and resolve conflicts using diff tools. And obviously with revision control, you can work "offline" and sync later.

Answer 5

I just created a new Tiddlywiki at TiddlySpot. It allows you to keep a local copy of the Tiddlywiki and also sync it up with the server.

Answer 6

If you have your own web server (and don't want to use TiddlySpot), try this code to enable saving to your own server.

Answer 7

I have a MonkeyGTD wiki that is on http://TiddlySpot.com. I have a local copy of it on my work PC and do my work during the day on it, and periodically upload to TiddlSpot during the day and at the end of the day. If I need to access it or update it after work I will make changes to the online version and then the next morning I do an Import back into my local file.

It's true that if I forget to do an update or do them in the wrong order I will lose information, but it's "good enough".

There is probably a way to use the Sync functionality to prevent this, but I haven't researched this option yet.

Answer 8

If you might want to edit your wiki on several computers at the same time, you would definitely want a server-based solution that syncs at a finer level than the file. Giewiki (http://giewiki.appspot.com) is a server-based TiddlyWiki solution based on Google's App Engine, which does just that. And unlike any other hosted TiddlyWikis that I know of, you can create several pages in any hierachy and navigate them through an auto-generated sitemap. You can try it out by creating a subdomain site at giewiki.appspot.com, or you can download the source and install it into a free appspot site of your own. And you can make it as personal or public as you like.

Answer 9

Try FolderShare.

Answer 10

I store my TiddlyWiki files on a USB flash drive that I keep with me no matter what computer I might be using. No need to bother synchronizing across other computers. It gets backed up regularly when I back up the flash drive itself on my primary workstation.

Answer 11

Yet another option: Use a different personal wiki called Luminotes, which you can either access online from different computers or download and run on your own computer (yes, even a USB drive). Luminotes has definitely got some similarities to TiddlyWiki, but in many ways it's simpler to learn and use.

Answer 12

You mentioned SVN, but if you don't mind using git, Github's Gollum is a great solution. Edit locally or from the github remote repo.

Answer 13

Why not just setup something like DokuWiki on a webserver? You do have your own web server, right? You can get a virtual hosted solution for $19/mo these days.