TiddlyWiki is a single html file, just like a web page... actually, you can say it is a webpage but you can store it locally or on-line (..or on a USB stick or email, etc, etc).

For this reason, just like a webpage, it is not wise to try to embed images in the very document. Instead simply link to images super easily, for example using [img[http://...]] or to a local file.

And regarding "amount of notes" - you can typically have several thousands without problem.

What has kept my own interest in TiddlyWiki over the years is its incedible customizability. You can use it as a notebook or easily customise it into other types of special CMS applications.

@twMat
its a self-modifying JS-powered webpage alright.

For this very reason, it does not distribute the pages on multiple html documents and JS starts to show the effects for high note count. Also the effect of big text, documents will be rendered slow on the screen. It also requires you to have a browser running to use it. Storing images in local folder is what I did, but they are still stored aside from notes by the nature of engine.

Personally, the dedicated note taking applications like KeepNote beat it, if offline operation is not required. The standalone wikis beat it, because they distribute the load better and require much less JS.

However, if WYSIWYG formatting can be replaced with pseudo-text variant, for example:

• bold *, ! warning, BIGFONT, :header 1, ::header 2, url:link, °##tag1, °##tag2

apparently nothing beats the speed and simplicity of text notes for personal notetaking.

I wrote my own parser for tags in bash, thus I get ultra fast searches, whilst the notes have sufficient markup and minimum on ram/dependencies.

[Edited by JohnAlternate, October 30]

this is a newer me. and yes, been there, even used markdown.
the best method is really ODT/LibreOffice and fulltext mass search of all ODTs via a script.
it gets best of all worlds together.