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The following refers to the TiddlyWiki you can get by right clicking here and saving the “link” or “target” to download.

You enter data into a TiddlyWiki through a tiddler. When you want to make one just click ‘new tiddler’ on the menu on the right. Hover the mouse over the top right of the tiddler that appears and click ‘edit’ to write in it and give it a title. Then click done, which saves it (if you have Auto Save enabled; otherwise, select “Save Changes”). You will see whatever you have created listed under the ‘All’ tiddlers tab.

Now, if you want to have things in the menu, or create new menu items, click ‘Edit Main’ up the top. You can see into the tiddler, once you click ‘edit,’ and note how headings and drop down headings are created. You’ll notice at the bottom, the name of ’systemTiddlers.’ This is a tag. You can give anything one or more tag names like that. You don’t have to do anything else except put some tag name, if you want to group things, at the bottom of any tiddler. Then you can see it under the tags tab. The beauty of this is that you don’t have to keep track of any hierarchy.

For example, to put something in the top menu, do this: create a new tiddler; open it up with edit and give it a name and at the bottom give it a ‘Notes’ tag. Then click ‘done.’ Now when you click the drop down of ‘Notes’ in the main menu you will see a link to your new tiddler. Or else, just open this tiddler and add ‘Notes’ at the bottom of it, then click ‘done.’

Here’s another empty TiddlyWiki from the official TiddlyWiki site at http://www.tiddlywiki.com. Right click on this link to empty.html and selecting ‘Save link as…’ or ‘Save target as…’. You can choose where to save the file, and what to call it (but make sure that it’s saved in HTML format and with an HTML extension).

For even more versions of TiddlyWiki, have a look at the Ubantu Demo Site

Here’s a tip. If you want everything you can see at the TiddlyWiki sight, or any other Tiddly site, just right click on the web page and choose “View Source.” A window will open up showing the web page’s source code. Do a Ctrl-A to select all of the source code and then a Ctrl-C to copy it. Now open up Notepad or Wordpad and do a Ctrl-V to paste all of the code. Save the file as whatever name you like, but give it a htm or html extension. Then double click on it to open up your new fully featured standalone TiddlyWiki.

By the way, you can also get a tiddlywiki that resides on a server is run using MySQL.