TheBrain VS TiddlyWiki

TheBrain 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

TheBrain mentions (8)

• (Serious) If storing notes is a process that never will end, how does one adjust after categorizing their notes in to sections when new notes come in on the fly and time is finite?

  Personally, I like the Getting Things Done method, which has you store notes in an "inbox" (for me, that's a Trello board), which you prune daily or weekly, which involves pruning out the stuff that really isn't important or that can just be done right then. Once I deem a thought or some information worthy of long term storage, I use the mind mapping software TheBrain. That allows me to store information quickly... Source: 5 months ago

• What format do you save articles?

  Works really great! Also, I'm a 20-year user of TheBrain (thebrain.com), and I can drag and drop the files from my Obsidian vault to TB as links. Then, I can edit those files in TB, link them to other 12,000+ thoughts in my TB, and those edits will show up in Obsidian; vice versa, edits made in Obsidian show up in TB. Source: about 1 year ago

• Working on an app Concept: "3D Mind Maps", Gimmicky or Actually Useful?

  You might get some ideas from thebrain.com. Source: almost 2 years ago

• Mind Map with layers or toggle

  Useless for my task: Thebrain.com. Source: about 2 years ago

• Note taking apps vs (personal) wikis as a personal knowledge store

  In this type of programs the best is theBrain https://thebrain.com/. Its dynamic mind maps allow store any quantity of information there. 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