TiddlySnip is a lot like Google Notebook (which I use a lot) in that it lets you select bits of pages and store them away for contemplation later. I find Google Notebook a bit under-featured, and I find it very refreshing to think that the “snips” I’m collecting are being ferreted away into a TiddlyWiki, making processing the information later on painless. I like that you can snip a page’s name and URL, and add some notes without having to select some body text first.

The TiddlySnip website is a really great example of using TiddlyWiki as a “website on a stick”, as the wiki functionality is pared back significantly and clever control has been taken over the layout and styling. The site contains a helpful guide to installation and configuration, and the ease of set-up benefits from these. On the down side, the extension is not signed, which raises a security flag; also, I couldn’t get the notification feature to work nor the automatic opening of the target TiddlyWiki. These don’t really detract from my enjoyment of TiddlySnip… it’s fair to say Google Notebook has been cuckolded.

TiddlySnip’s development team is Saq Imtiaz and Kalle Alm, and they recognise contributions from Jeremy Ruston, Daniel Baird and Yann Perrin. TiddlySnip is open sourced and a part of the main TiddlyWiki.org SVN repository.