I can't speak for everyone, only myself. When I picked TiddlyWiki several years ago, I imposed the following constraints on myself (brief reason in square brackets):
* Lightweight text markup that included hyperlinking [these are among the things that separate the solution from text-only] * Searchable * Open source [the content I generate for myself is too important to me for it to go dark if a startup shutters] * Offline-first [travel or an internet outage shouldn't completely separate me from my "second brain"] The first two are basic notetaking sorts of things, but the other two are why I use the default file saver with TiddlyDesktop. A single file + synchronization happens to be among the easier ways (to me) of accomplishing offline first. Everything is a trade-off. I will say that document databases are a dime a dozen. Plain text and HTML are probably the two most stable interfaces in technology today. I (and, I suspect, a great deal of TiddlyWiki's user base) value that sort of stability. On Monday, November 22, 2021 at 4:26:58 AM UTC-6 V wrote: > Hi. > > I have been following the TW project for years and I am still very > surprised that the community continues to actively support super strange, > inconvenient and limited ways of saving and synchronizing – but at the same > time all developments using normal technologies on which synchronization > could be easy, seamless and safe, such as CouchDB, are not supported in > official release and abandoned by community. > > Especially considering the new data storage format in JSON, with which > synchronization with object databases has never been easier. It's even > easier than maintaining the current server solution on files, which in > principle cannot work offline, unlike a solution based on > IndexedDB+PouchDB→CouchDB or IndexedDB→Mongo/Posrgres. > > I have used PouchDB adapter from NoteSelf, but it's outdated and contains > a lot of bugs. Other solutions were outdated even earlier. > > If IndexedDB/CouchDB solution were supported out of the box, there would > be no reason at all to use paid solutions like Evernote or Notion for > personal notes. > > Based on discussions & repo, it seems that no movement in this direction > is planned. > > I have only one question – why? > Is it really more convenient for everyone to save files in Dropbox using > crutches, constantly losing changes between devices and merging conflicts? > > Are these some kind of ideological reasons? > > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tiddlywiki/665e3ab6-5079-4c59-bb59-ebe112a842f3n%40googlegroups.com.
