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What's the best way to persist state with TiddlyWiki? I really would like to save without any browser extensions.

If you aren't tied strictly to using pure TiddlyWiki you may be interested in NoteSelf(https://noteself.org/), which uses the browser's LocalStorage via PouchDB. Bonus, this can then be synchronized to any remote couchdb server.

I've found setting up the Git integration to be the best way: https://tiddlywiki.com/static/Saving%2520to%2520a%2520Git%25...

I tried this but found it kind of confusing. How do you actually edit your wiki? As far as I can tell, when I make changes the wiki "saves" by making a new commit and pushing it to GitHub, but it doesn't modify the file itself. Meaning in order to update my local copy, I have to manually pull the changes down from GitHub every time. This seemed extremely awkward to me and I'm sure I'm missing something or doing something wrong

1. It is confusing. I agree with you there.

2. Nope, the file is modified itself.

3. One thing that the documentation does a poor job of: all fields need to be filled out for GitHub integration.

4. Here's my settings in TiddlyWiki: https://i.imgur.com/MqbO28t.png

I use the npm package and run it as a local server. Works well.

This came out a while ago and I remember thinking it'd make the single file approach to TiddlyWiki effectively frictionless if you are Chrome user ...

https://web.dev/file-system-access/

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