About TiddlyMap
TiddlyMap is a plugin for TiddlyWiki 5 that turns the personal note-taking wiki into a hybrid of wiki and concept map. You can draw maps and also write down knowledge in wiki form, visually linking and creating topics to build clickable graphs such as concept maps or dependency graphs. It also visualizes the structure of your topics automatically, so relationships are visible at a glance.
The motivation is to combine the strengths of wikis and concept maps for personal knowledge management, for people who found that large mind maps became too complex to maintain or that wikis lacked visual ways to express relations. The author notes it works with mobile devices but is designed for larger screens.
The README states that TiddlyMap is no longer maintained. It still works with TiddlyWiki 5.3.x but receives no further fixes or features, and its spiritual successor is TW5-Graph. The project demo site is also no longer maintained, and the latest version is available from the git releases. It is licensed under BSD-2-Clause.
Key features
- Draw concept maps inside TiddlyWiki
- Create and link wiki topics visually
- Clickable graphs and dependency maps
- Automatic visualization of topic structure
- Works with TiddlyWiki 5.3.x
Good fit for
- →Mapping relationships between notes in a personal wiki
- →Building concept maps that remain editable as wiki pages
- Built with
- JavaScript
- Tags
- tiddlywiki
- wiki
- concept-map
- mind-map
- knowledge-graph
- plugin
- visualization
- deprecated
TiddlyMap: questions and answers
- What is TiddlyMap used for?
- TiddlyMap is a TiddlyWiki plugin that adds a graph view to your wiki so you can draw concept maps and link topics visually; no longer maintained. It is a good fit for mapping relationships between notes in a personal wiki and building concept maps that remain editable as wiki pages.
- Is TiddlyMap open source?
- Yes. TiddlyMap is open source under the BSD-2-Clause licence. Its source code is on GitHub at felixhayashi/TW5-TiddlyMap and is written mainly in JavaScript.
- Is TiddlyMap free?
- Yes. TiddlyMap is open source, so the software itself is free to use.
- Can I self-host TiddlyMap?
- Yes. TiddlyMap can be self-hosted on your own server or infrastructure; there is no official hosted version.
- What are some alternatives to TiddlyMap?
- Similar open-source tools in the Note Taking category include Neurite, Obsidian LLM Wiki and VimWiki. SaaS products in the same category include Capacities, Craft and Kinopio.
- Is TiddlyMap actively maintained?
- The most recent commit to TiddlyMap was on 21 January 2026, and the latest release is v0.17.21, published on 27 August 2025. The project has 912 stars on GitHub.
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