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This back and forth between ORG/Emacs and Tiddlywiki combined with the fact I was maintaining multiples sources of information (my raw notes in ORG, my own thoughts / processed notes in Tiddlywiki) brought me to org-roam. Not only this, but it also forced me to rethink my note-taking workflow and make adjustments to the whole system.
In the first part of this series I’ll outline the main factors why I’ve decided to move my digital garden / braindump / Zettelkasten to org-roam and which factors have facilitated this decision. In the 2nd part (still work in progress) I will expand more how I’ve built the new brainfck.org using hugo, ox-hugo and org-roam.
After going down the Emacs rabbit hole, I’ve adopted ORG mode as my main file format for writing documents, exporting these to other formats (PDF, markdown, Confluence, Jira and many others), creating diagrams (mainly plantuml), presentations, writing technical documentation and hopefully some day for publishing a whole book. For the note-taking phase I write my notes in ORG mode and create a rudimentary outline sorted by chapters/sections. Usually I use the same structure to create my blog posts from (like I did in the book summaries). Extracting pieces of information for individual tiddlers, however, tends to be a time-intensive process. I’ve managed to use the Tiddlywiki API within Emacs but my Elisp skills are still not good for doing more advanced stuff like:
If you pay attention, there are lots of similarities. That’s why I could easily copy and paste most of the ORG content into the tiddlers. As for the rest (source blocks, quotes, examples, sidenotes etc.) manual conversion (or using ox-tiddly ) was necessary.
in some of blog posts (written in ORG) I wanted to include some content from different tiddlers I had to convert Tiddlywiki content back to ORG syntax again
David Alfonso has done a great job and put together a repository that helps you with the export of tiddlers. All you need is to export all your tiddlers bundled as one single HTML and then follow the instructions in the README.
In the first part of this series I’ll outline the main factors why I’ve decided to move my digital garden / braindump / Zettelkasten to org-roam and which factors have facilitated this decision. In the 2nd part (still work in progress) I will expand more how I’ve built the new brainfck.org using hugo, ox-hugo and org-roam.