Personal wiki
Personal wikis allow people to richly link information on their desktop the same way a community wiki links information across the internet. Thus people who like the wiki philosophy of organizing information may find personal wikis useful. Further, for wiki developers they point out directions for future development: that is, what is possible now on the desktop points to what may be possible later given a rich client interface (for example Ajax) and thus foreshadows what wikipedia might be like in 2010. The main advantage they offer currently is drag and drop support for images, text and video.
An example product is VoodooPad which is a personal wiki designed by flyingmeat for OSX users. While not using the specific code it works similarly to NSTextViewAsWiki. This product has a free version of the product VoodooPad Lite. It also has a light integrated server VPStash. The screen shot to the right demonstrates some aspects of the usage. The diagrams are gifs "drag and dropped" from the online version of SICP. The blue text are hyperlinks to within the book, the menu to the right contains a full list of pages which are all live links. A movie containing live linking can be viewed here.
See also
- StoneNotes - Similar application for Windows
- Wiki on a Stick
- List of Personal Wikis
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