When comparing Federated Wiki vs TagSpaces, the Slant community recommends TagSpaces for most people. In the question“What is the best cross-platform note-taking app?” TagSpaces is ranked 46th while Federated Wiki is ranked 60th. The most important reason people chose TagSpaces is:
TagSpaces is free and open source making it easily extendable with the help of extensions.
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Pros
Pro Stories
Arrange your personal view of a wikis content by opening local and remote pages next to each other. Shift-clicking a link will open it next to already open ones. The story will then be visible in the URL.
Pro Free and Open Source Software
Pro Versioning
Your page is the Journal of the page.
Pro Drag and drop refactoring
Recompose your contents all the time.
Pro Federation
Write locally, fork to your public site. Fork from others.
Pro Open source
TagSpaces is free and open source making it easily extendable with the help of extensions.
Pro Your can choose your cloud file storage
Using only files and no databases let's you make the decision with which cloud file sync service to use, making sure your notes are made available on other devices and platforms. It works great with Owncloud, Nextcloud, Dropbox or Google Drive.
Pro No web service or database lock in
The backend is simply the directory and file structure on your harddrive.
Pro No cloud
TagSpaces is running completely offline, sending no data to any cloud based service, unlike many Evernote alternatives.
Cons
Con No drag'n'drop file upload
Con It renames your files in order to tag them
The positive side of this drawback is that this way the tags are easily transferred to other platforms by simply syncing them.