TiddlyWiki5 — source summary
An open-source “non-linear personal web notebook that anyone can use and keep forever,
independently of any corporation” — a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript, usable
as a single HTML file or a Node.js app. Delivered via Telegram, ingested 2026-05-29.
README in raw/tiddlywiki5.md.
What it is
- A self-contained personal wiki whose unit of content is the tiddler (a small, atomic, reusable note) — non-linear, richly interlinked, with transclusion.
- Entirely self-hosted / self-owned: a single file you keep forever; the whole UI is itself hackable WikiText. Community dates to a Google Group since 2005 (TiddlyWiki predates roam-research by ~15 years).
Place in the wiki’s lineage
TiddlyWiki is the earliest tool-for-thought node in this wiki — an atomic-notes-plus- links personal wiki years before roam-research and obsidian, a digital sibling of the zettelkasten method (its “tiddlers” are atomic notes; transclusion prefigures Roam’s block references). Its defining ethos — own your data, keep it forever, a wiki that is just a file you control — is the same ethos behind the llm-wiki pattern (your wiki is a git repo of plain markdown you own). Reflexively, this very wiki is that ethos realized: atomic pages you own, interlinked, no platform lock-in.
Related
zettelkasten · roam-research · obsidian · llm-wiki · associative-trails