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.
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You could try https://tiddlywiki.com/ or one of is versions https://tiddlyroam.org/. Source: over 2 years ago
Also one has to emphasite to use tiddlywikis extension: tiddlyroam. Source: about 3 years ago
It sounds like you need a wiki. TiddlyWiki is the closest to Twine (the first version of Twine was actually built on top of it) so that might be a good place to start. There are lots of plugins for it that can add additional features beyond the basics and there are premade distributions of it that package more functionality out of the box. It looks like tiddlyroam has functionality to allow the visualization of... Source: over 3 years ago
You can do this fairly easily with a macro in Tiddlywiki. There are even โversionsโ of Tiddlywiki that behave like Roam that are free if you like that format. Source: over 3 years ago
Https://tiddlywiki.com and https://tiddlyroam.org single-page html+js local/web app with an optional Electron-based desktop UI :: they have the best transclusion support I know, give it a try, I do not like them but they have very nice points, a guide is here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLzZCajspPU_UjFn0uy-J9URz0LP4zhxRK. Source: about 4 years ago
I have slightly different needs I suppose, but I settled for https://tiddlywiki.com/ as my SOHO wiki. There is a learning curve, but once you grasp some rather uncommon concepts it's quite good and very easy to setup, backup and manage locally or remotely. - Source: Hacker News / about 1 month ago
I just standardize to TiddlyWiki (2004) https://tiddlywiki.com/#History%20of%20TiddlyWiki format now supporting json to maintain interop with PlainText editors emacs, vim, mobile, or bespoke GenAi DIY vibe code import/export tool, etc and all done! [{. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Just like with https://tiddlywiki.com/ Your notes are the HTML file! You can keep it in your documents folder, sync it via any service, track it in version control, etc. Itโs for folks who know what the filesystem is, donโt know how to host a server, but want a website-like experience. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Niceโฆ keep in mind there are already very mature tools like https://tiddlywiki.com/. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
> If only browser vendors allowed their users to persist HTML files back to their own machines, we'd have a whole new ecosystem of personal applications! The trick TiddlyWiki does with data URLs (IIRC?) (https://tiddlywiki.com/#Saving%20with%20the%20HTML5%20saver) seems pretty close to me. - Source: Hacker News / about 2 months ago
Obsidian.md - A second brain, for you, forever. Obsidian is a powerful knowledge base that works on top of a local folder of plain text Markdown files.
Logseq - Logseq is a local-first, non-linear, outliner notebook for organizing and sharing your personal knowledge base.
Zim Wiki - Zim is a graphical text editor used to maintain a collection of wiki pages. Each page can contain links to other pages, simple formatting and images.
Roam Research - A note-taking tool for networked thought
DokuWiki - DokuWiki is a simple to use and highly versatile Open Source wiki software that doesn't require a database.
Joplin - Joplin is a free, open source note taking and to-do application, which can handle a large number of notes organised into notebooks. The notes are searchable, tagged and modified either from the applications directly or from your own text editor.