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TiddlyWiki – The World’s Strangest Digital Notebook

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 BigBadTech 1 Comment free, note-taking, notes, open-source, tiddlywiki, wiki

I hate the name “Tiddlywiki”, and that’s my biggest criticism of the software going by that name, so I’ll be calling it TW for the rest of this post. TW is a digital notebook, but it’s not like anything you’re used to. Like most of the software I’ll review, it’s also free. When you head over to the official website and download a copy you might be surprised to find that you end up with an HTML page in your downloads directory.… Read more

Note-Taking

Joplin – The Self-hosted OneNote Alternative

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 BigBadTech 1 Comment checklists, joplin, note-taking, notes, office, onenote, review

When I made the decision to ditch giant tech companies, the only application I was tempted to preserve was Microsoft’s OneNote. If you’ve never used it before, it works as a digital notebook. You can create multiple notebooks with different sections and subsections and pages, you can embed audio, video, images, and files. You can make tables. I began using it right after I graduated from college and for years it organized my life.… Read more