MemPad VS TiddlyWiki

MemPad Reviews

TiddlyWiki Reviews

1. Stan    

   Founder at SaaSHub | almost 4 years ago
   A great app yet a bit complicated

   Not too far ago, I invested several days into "mastering" and tuning TiddlyWiki. It was an interesting experience. I loved it on the whole and felt very enthusiastic about using it store all my knowledge. It's super flexible and use of tags, filters and macros make it unique. However, it's a bit complicated for mass adoption. Also, the extended use of its powerful features may make your computer tangibly slow.

   That's why I found "Obsidian", that's what I'm using today to store my knowledge.

   🏁 Competitors: Obsidian.md

   👍 Pros:    Very flexible|Browser based

   👎 Cons:    High learning curve|Could be slow

MemPad mentions (5)

• How do you record your ideas throughout the day?

  I spend 90% of my time at a Windows keyboard, so use MemPad https://horstmuc.de/wmem.htm as a software version of a spiral-bound notebook. It does literally nothing other than being a stack of notepad pages that you can reorder or search. Source: about 1 year ago

• Dungeons and Dragons Digital Character Sheet and document formatting questions

  If he prefers to maintain plaintext notes somewhere else, the best tool I've found is a version of a sectionable spiral notebook. MemPad does the trick wonderfully. Source: about 2 years ago

• got Linux running on a dell inspiron 8100 antix is the only distro that would show a display and that supported 32bit systems

  All Office programs, and most 'big' editors have outlining modes, but to me the small size is a necessary feature; Unhelpful Linux developers have often suggested that I use emacs in org-mode - but since I need to save 10.000's of files, each together with the creating software, a 600 MB installation is not what I want... I you use windows, take a look at MemPad. Source: about 2 years ago

• What's the Best Wiki for a Self Hosted Home Lab?

  My personal help-file is literally over 9000 pages long, if printed. That is slightly unwieldy in a single text file. I want to keep things as simple as possible, make data-export/migration simple, and (Important!) be sure that the files can be read 30 years from now. So I use MemPad, a simple outliner that saves in a format that can be read by Notebook (or any other text editor) Extraction/export of... Source: about 2 years ago

• UPDATE: After reading 600+ of your comments, here is the updated list of open source Linux programs mostly for beginners (thus mostly gui).

  That looks interesting! The app that keeps me on windows is a small, .txt based, outliner - something that for some strange reason don't seem to exist in the 'nix-sphere. I have tried asking Linux forums for suggestions for a comparable program, but always get '[[REDACTED ]]off' answers... I keep literally thousands of outline files on removable media, and (for archival purposes) all needs to be followed by the... Source: over 2 years ago

TiddlyWiki mentions (180)

• Ask HN: Looking for lightweight personal blogging platform

  Tiddlywiki might be interesting. https://tiddlywiki.com/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

• Software suggestions

  I use TiddlyWiki. It's a portable editable wiki that doesn't require a web server or web hosting. You open it from your computer, edit it, and save it. You get all of the linking that you'd expect to see in a wiki, and it's super readable and easy to use. Source: 5 months ago

• PWAs can now access the file system on desktop and both Android and iOS

  Hopefully, this will make it much easier for software like tiddlywiki [1] where the idea is to be as self-contained as possible. It has depended on various mechanisms to save changes to disk, but this may lower the threshold to use it and feel more streamlined [1] https://tiddlywiki.com. - Source: Hacker News / 7 months ago

• BASIC Anywhere Machine

  It is a single-HTML-file TiddlyWiki instance that runs in a web browser (offline as well as online), meant to be downloaded and stored wherever suits you best. Everything that you see when working in BASIC Anywhere Machine (everything that makes "BAM" work as an IDE and all BASIC programs) exist in the one HTML file. Source: 8 months ago

• TiddlyPWA: putting TiddlyWiki on modern web app steroids

  TiddlyWiki still works as intended: https://tiddlywiki.com/#GettingStarted but there are so many different clients to run on. Mobile or Desktop ? What OS? What Browser? This effort https://val.packett.cool/blog/tiddlypwa/ is remarkable as the mobile side of saving is not as robust as on the desktop side of things and there is a scaling limit on performance as the number of tiddlers grows. Also the syncing between... - Source: Hacker News / 9 months ago