TiddlyWeb is an open source web-based storage system for tiddlers. It provides a robust HTTP API, making each record a directly addressable unit of micro-content. It operates, amongst other things, as a server side for TiddlyWiki.

Collections of tiddlers can be grouped in bags which provide authorization and naming domains. Bags and filters can be composed in recipes to create useful combinations of data, content and code.

TiddlyWeb is useful on its own as a data and content storage system, can be combined with TiddlyWebWiki to make a server side for TiddlyWiki, or can be used as a library for creating complex web applications such as TiddlySpace, TiddlyHoster or WikiData.

A lightning talk from EuroPython 2009 explains the basic proposition in five minutes.

If you are eager to try things out, see TiddlyWeb for the Impatient.



TiddlyWeb has a philosophy and opinions about how it does stuff.