This is exactly what I need: A bunch of text documents that I'll be able to read at any point in the future, in a wiki structure that will be simple to implement in most extensible text editors. Hit shift+ctrl+i to return to IndexPage.If it doesn't exist, it's created as WikiWords.txt in the project directory. With a cursor over it or at the end, hit enter to open this page in the project window. In the project window, open IndexPage.txt and make notes as normal (set the language to 'Wiki' in the bottom bar, if it's not that already).It's easiest to use this directory as a project-close the text file, and drag the directory icon onto TextMate. Make a new text file, and save it in a new, empty directory as 'IndexPage.txt'.The plain text wiki is implemented as a bundle inside TextMate, the (highly extensible) Mac text editor. How about a plain text wiki? So that's what I've made. To be honest, the most important part of a wiki for me is the wiki-I'm not bothered about formatting or pictures. So I use VoodooPad for arranging and notes I don't need to keep, and make sure my final presentation notes also exist as text files. I've had computers long enough to know that I want my data in a format used by many, many applications over many, many years. Here's my one problem with VoodooPad: The data is in a proprietary format. I like wikis because my problem is not noting down loads of associated ideas (so I don't need mind mapping software)-my problem is linearising, and wikis really help me with putting down everything I'm thinking about, and massaging it into a talk, or project presentation, or whatever. It presents you with a good text editor, and a bunch of formatted text documents linked together in the UsualWikiWay (also some really innovative scripting hooks). Nice bunch of people.I'm a big fan of VoodooPad, the Mac desktop wiki application. Example:Ĭommunity is friendly and helpful I stole most of my customisation macros, code and notetaking ideas from the TiddlyWiki Google Group where helpful ideas and solutions are plenty. TW warns about this in their page and advice people to use backup (I backup it to Dropbox). I've seen few cases where people lost their data completely. 'Notetaking' is different from 'notetaking', so occasionally, I link to a non-existing pages for less frequently linked pages there should be a setting for naming policy. Easy to use and extremely customisable (or may be I am coloured by my non-programmer experience with static site generators). If they could get this to work I think this has the chance of being the best static site generator. I wish they make a setting to replace that with hyphens or underscores.example page: It double encodes the URLs and it is filled with "%2520". But I am slowly trying to make work a Perl module to convert the HTML to wiki form. So as a non-programmer I am stuck with this as of now. Not a TW problem, Pandoc and other tools cannot convert this to say, MediaWiki or DokuWiki. + No converter to convert files to other Wikis or formats: It also supports other syntaxs such as Org-mode and Markdown if you use them in retrospect I should have chosen Org-mode as an Emacs user, it would have been easier to get the data to other programs. Most Wikis can do this, however, in TiddlyWiki it is easy-no need to edit PHP files or plugins it has a nice filter syntax that allow anything to be queried in a myriad ways tags, date, custom fields, title and so on, I just place that filter right there in the text and get the results. I keep software links, configuration, track-list for stuff I want to track (great new product/bookmark/book/service, just add ] when creating that page and can see it later in the footer of my TrackList page. This is different from restrictive categories. If I read something written by or about,say Roosevelt, I just add ] and I click on the link and just add a one line description like: Roosevelt was a ] ] and it will create a nice connection to the POTUS page and the US page. Tiddlywiki is also a great system for bookmarks. I could make the backlinks show up in the footer of every page (tiddlers) and this reminds me connections I might have forgot. The best feature it has is a Wiki feature, not any TiddlyWiki feature: backlinks. I use it as personal note taking + bookmarking + daily reading log.
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