If you’re a TiddlyWiki geek like us you should get excited. 2.1 is going to hit the decks any day now… What’s so great about it?

• New core support for importing tiddlers (including plugins) from other TiddlyWiki sites and local files
• New PluginManager which makes managing your plugins a lot easier
• New palette support to make it easy to invent your own colour scheme
• Tiddler “slices” which are a way of reading meta data from the tiddler’s body
• Tiddler “values/fields” let a plugin writer store arbitrary data in each tiddler

These last two are especially interesting for plugin developers. A lot of stuff is going be a lot easier than before. For example reminders could be implemented much easier now using tiddler fields. In fact I’m working on a 2.1 version of Jeremy Sheeley’s reminders. See my demo (and some other demos of 2.1 coolness) at http://mptw-beta.tiddlyspot.com/

So what does this all mean for tiddlyspot users? We will add an option to create a 2.1 site as soon as it’s out. If you want to upgrade your existing site then you can download it, do your upgrade, then reupload. We should have a step-by-step howto for that process. It would be nice to have a one-click online upgrade for tiddlyspot users as well, but that might be a little further off.

With a major TiddlyWiki update like this it’s likely that some plugins will break, hence MonkeyGTD and d3 users should stick with 2.0.x until there are 2.1 tested releases out. MPTW users, I will be testing all the main MPTW plugins, (TagglyTagging etc) as soon as I can after 2.1 final comes out. I think most of them will work (actually the important ones are already working in the mptw-beta site) so brave MPTW users can take the plunge early…