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Anyone installing the TiddlyWiki beta version will probably already know how to do this. But anyway, this is for those that want a quick 1-2-3... Remember, as stated on the TiddlyWiki beta page, and as with anything "beta" (although half the services on the web these days are in beta) don't use it for important data, and don't complain if it breaks!.. just report it to the developers ;-) So, get TiddlyWiki beta as follows: Go to http://tiddlywiki.com/beta/ Now just save this web page locally to your computer In Internet Explorer 6 you do this by going to File -> Save As (in most browsers the keyboard shortcut is Ctrl+S) Save the browser page as HTML-only (tip: put "beta" somewhere in the filename so you don't forget) You have now saved your TiddlyWiki Beta locally. So you can open it and edit it as usual. Now if you want to upgrade an existing (non-beta) TiddlyWiki to the beta version you just downloaded do the following: Open the TiddlyWiki beta fi...

First I wasn’t sure how to install TiddlyWiki plugins. Then I figured that one out . Now I was a bit confused on how I was supposed to install a TiddlyWiki Adaptor (I always thought Adaptor was spelt with an ‘e’ but I guess not J ) I wanted to import plain text files as tiddlers, so was looking for a plugin to do this when I came across this page about importing on tiddlywiki.org. It mentions that “By default, content can only be imported from other TiddlyWiki documents [but] Adaptors can be used to extend that functionality to arbitrary sources”. The Adaptors page it links to simply contains a list of links to Javascript files, so I wasn’t really sure what to do with them a first. However, after downloading one of these Javascript files, the RawTextAdaptor.js , using right-click à Save Target As , and opening it in a text editor I saw there was a source URL ( http://devpad.tiddlyspot.com/#RawTextAdaptor ). I realized that RawTextAdapter was itself a tiddler on a TiddlyWiki compati...

As mentioned by Darrel Austin on the MN Interactive blog it's not easy to figure out how to install a TiddlyWiki plugin. He describes it nicely, but even so, I couldn't quite work out what I had to do on the CoreTweaks plugin page to get the thing installed! It's a piece of cake once you know how of course. This is what I did: 1. Click the "view" link on the top right-hand side of the CoreTweaks tiddler (because yes, this is actually a tiddler, even though it looks nothing like an out-of-the-box tiddler. It's been customised you see to look cool ;)) [If you're still lost, note that the "view" is only visible when your mouse is actually hovering over the browser window] 2. When the "view" link has been clicked, you can see the source of the tiddler. Just copy this, create a new tiddler in your own TiddlyWiki and paste the CoreTweaks source into your new tiddler. I don't think you have to call your new tiddler CoreTweaks, but I did ...