GTDTiddlyWiki
- May 12, 2005
- 6 comments
I just discovered yesterday a neat little wiki called TiddlyWiki. It’s a wiki with some extra features and eye-candy. When I first saw it I immediately thought it would make a great way to keep track of different things in life like work, bills, personal goals, etc. Basically a nice way to “Get Things Done” (aka GTD).
I had already downloaded the source code to TiddlyWiki and was customizing it to fit my needs when I discovered GTDTiddlyWiki. Holy moly! This is exactly what I had in mind! It has all the features I thought the original TiddlyWiki needed and it looks great to boot!
I already have a copy of it saved on one of my thumb drives with a stand-alone version of Firefox. Which brings up the one gripe I have about it. It’s not Safari-compatible. Everything works the way it should except for when you try to save changes. That makes it useless in Safari. I’ve already emailed the developer asking if he had heard of a way to make it work with Safari, so this may only be a short-lived gripe.
If you’re looking for a simple, easy-to-use way of managing different aspects of work or your life, then you should take a look at GTDTiddlyWiki.
I’m just curious how it is not compatible with Safari. Is there something funky about the HTML it outputs that Safari doesn’t render as the author intended? Or is there something about how Safari does POSTs that screws things up? If you make a change in Safari, then save the resulting page, does it look OK in Firefox?
The author may not have a Mac to test things with Safari, and may rely on detailed input from Mac users like you.
No, Safari doesn’t work, because it doesn’t use the loadFile() JavaScript function. Firefox doesn’t either by default, but when you run GTDTW the first time in Firefox, it will ask you if you want to allow the script to load the file. Safari just completely ignores it. As far as I know, the developer already knows about this.
I’ve tried creating an AppleScript that would get around this somehow, but it doesn’t work. Of course, my AppleScript skills aren’t all that, so someone who is a lot better with it might be able to come up with something.
I’ve personally been using the wikety widget. But, if this thing can run on a thumb drive, once the semester starts it might be very interesting for stuff I need to access in a library when i don’t lug the powerbook….
Someone wrote a tutorial on using tiddlywiki and ee, using entries as new tiddly updates – was kind of neat, but not thumb drive friendly