Thoughts on Forester: A Scientist's Zettelkasten (opens in new tab)

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3 pointsthecedarprince1y ago3 comments

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After having tried quite many note taking tools, I think Tiddlywiki is superior regarding transclusions [1]

[1] https://groktiddlywiki.com/read/#Transclusions

Oh I just gave this a read through -- this is really neat, thanks for sharing, Karen. I have also been a fan of Tiddlywiki but always felt a bit sad about its apparent lack of support for mathematics typesetting. Although I am not too familiar with Tiddlywiki so perhaps I've been mistaken.

How do you like it? Do you have a wiki up somewhere?

Cheers!

karencarits1y ago

Thanks for reading through and engaging!

For mathematical typesetting, you need the KaTeX plugin [1] (installing an plugin is simply to drag-and-drop it to your own wiki). There is also a plugin for doing calculations in TiddlyWiki but I haven't used it personally [2]

I like it a lot - the problem with TiddlyWiki is that it's hard to describe since its so flexible. I have a few local tiddlywikis that I use for catalogues and note taking/knowledge base. The note taking was inspired by another HN comment [3] that introduced Drift [4,5], which includes features such as tabs for backlinks, keywords, and freelinks.

But you may also find the Projectify edition [6] interesting or one cloning Roam Research [7]

[1] https://tiddlywiki.com/plugins/tiddlywiki/katex/

[2] https://chronicles.wiki/TiddlyWikiFormula/

[3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25305527

[4] Source: https://github.com/bmann/drift-tiddlywiki-template/tree/mast...

[5] Demo: https://ramirosalas.com/

[6] https://thaddeusjiang.github.io/Projectify/

[7] https://rr-tw5.github.io/

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