According to legend, ancient navigators on the open sea who needed to know where the sun was on a cloudy day could use a treasured mineral called a "sunstone". The special properties of the stone made it possible to disregard all the directions from which sunlight was merely being reflected, and identify the true direction of the sun.

Sunstone aims to serve a similar purpose as a personal organizer. Built on the TiddlyWiki5 platform, the key principle of Sunstone is the ability to put out of sight the tasks that can't or shouldn't be done now, leaving you to focus your energies on the here and now.

Among the features that allow Sunstone to make this happen are:

Resources - you can mark a task as requiring a 'resource', and tell Sunstone whether you currently have that resource available or not. If your printer is broken and you're waiting for the repair, you can put aside all the tasks that need the printer and focus on all the other tasks that still need doing.

Contingencies - when one task needs another to be completed first, you can establish that relationship in Sunstone, and the dependent tasks will still appear, but only subordinate to what needs to happen first.

Welcome to TiddlyWiki, a non-linear personal web notebook that anyone can use and keep forever, independently of any corporation.

TiddlyWiki is a complete interactive wiki in JavaScript. It can be used as a single HTML file in the browser or as a powerful Node.js application. It is highly customisable: the entire user interface is itself implemented in hackable WikiText.

Learn more and see it in action at http://tiddlywiki.com/

Developer documentation is in progress at http://tiddlywiki.com/dev/

1. Install Node.js from http://nodejs.org
2. Open a command line terminal and type:

   npm install -g tiddlywiki

   If it fails with an error you may need to re-run the command as an administrator:

   sudo npm install -g tiddlywiki (Mac/Linux)

3. Check TiddlyWiki is installed by typing:

   tiddlywiki --version

4. In response, you should see TiddlyWiki report its current version (eg "5.1.8"; you may also see other debugging information reported)
5. Try it out:
   1. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --init server to create a folder for a new wiki that includes server-related components
   2. tiddlywiki mynewwiki --server to start TiddlyWiki
   3. Visit http://127.0.0.1:8080/ in your browser
   4. Try editing and creating tiddlers

The -g flag causes TiddlyWiki to be installed globally. Without it, TiddlyWiki will only be available in the directory where you installed it.

If you are using Debian or Debian-based Linux and you are reciving a node: command not found error though node.js package is installed, you may need to create a symbolic link between nodejs and node. Consult your distro's manual and whereis to correctly create a link. See github issue 1434

Example Debian v8.0: sudo ln -s /usr/bin/nodejs /usr/bin/node

TiddlyWiki5 can be used on the command line to perform an extensive set of operations based on TiddlyWikiFolders, TiddlerFiles and TiddlyWikiFiles.

For example, the following command loads the tiddlers from a TiddlyWiki HTML file and then saves one of them in static HTML:

tiddlywiki --verbose --load mywiki.html --rendertiddler ReadMe ./readme.html

Running tiddlywiki from the command line boots the TiddlyWiki kernel, loads the core plugins and establishes an empty wiki store. It then sequentially processes the command line arguments from left to right. The arguments are separated with spaces.

The first argument is the optional path to the TiddlyWikiFolder to be loaded. If not present, then the current directory is used.

The commands and their individual arguments follow, each command being identified by the prefix --.

tiddlywiki [<wikipath>] [--<command> [<arg>[,<arg>]]]

The available commands are:

• build
• clearpassword
• editions
• help
• init
• load
• makelibrary
• output
• password
• rendertiddler
• rendertiddlers
• savetiddler
• savetiddlers
• server
• setfield
• unpackplugin
• verbose
• version

If you've installed TiddlyWiki on Node.js on the usual way, when a new version is released you can upgrade it with this command:

npm update -g tiddlywiki

On Mac or Linux you'll need to add sudo like this:

sudo npm update -g tiddlywiki

• TiddlyWikiFolders

• MultiTiddlerFileSyntax

• MultiTiddlerFiles

• TiddlerFiles

• Generating Static Sites with TiddlyWiki

• How to build a TiddlyWiki5 from individual tiddlers

• Using TiddlyWiki for GitHub project documentation

• Using a custom path prefix with the client-server edition

• Building TiddlyWikiClassic

• Environment Variables on Node.js

• Scripts for TiddlyWiki on Node.js

• Working with the TiddlyWiki5 repository

This readme file was automatically generated by TiddlyWiki