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I’ve found PersonalWiki a good way to keep a lot of information that was previously distributed in text files, outlook, jabber histories, etc. It’s a single, low-friction, hypertext place, with lots of good search capabilities, and my implementation is based on a free and open solution with a great support community (MoinMoin).

Now that I’ve got MultipleDesktops working smoothly for simple things using Subversion, the obvious question is can I use it to keep my PersonalWiki synchronized across machines as well?

Yes, and I’m rather happy with the result; see this experience paper for details (a wiki page at MoinMoin itself).

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2 Responses to “Personal wiki and multiple desktops”

  1. Barry Says:
    January 3rd, 2006 at 22:03

    Hi Dave

    Have you seen this? http://tiddlywiki.com/ It is a wiki without a server… so no need for subversion to synchronise your various servers… Just put the file on a USB drive..

    “Welcome to TiddlyWiki, an experimental MicroContent WikiWikiWeb built by JeremyRuston. It’s written in HTML, CSS and JavaScript to run on any modern browser without needing any ServerSide logic. It allows anyone to create personal SelfContained hypertext documents that can be posted to any WebServer, sent by email or kept on a USB thumb drive to make a WikiOnAStick. This is revision 1.2.39 of TiddlyWiki, and is published under an OpenSourceLicense.”

    I’m about to investigate this variant: http://shared.snapgrid.com/gtd_tiddlywiki.html

    Cheers
    Barry

  2. Dave Says:
    March 22nd, 2006 at 22:48

    Barry,

    I’m darn sorry and not a little embarrassed about missing your comment, I let this blog drop a few months and have just moderated out a digital ton of comment spam. I need to move up to a better spam solution.

    And what a comment to miss! TW is fascinating, I thought I’d just take a quick peek and I’m hooked. Very creative wiki approach, the ajaxy feel is great, moving from page-centric to multiple open tiddlers is great, and text on disk is a beautiful thing. “Disconnected” is a mode I’m appreciating in more and more contexts, and this does it simply. Edit functionality lifted when viewing over HTTP. This is clever stuff, I’m glad you pointed me to it.

    The GTD variant is clever as well, a nice application of TW. I went deep into GTD last year, I’ve evolved out a mostly pure text + file system implementation that works really well with my MultipleDesktop stuff. TW/GTDTW is not as svn-friendly as I’d like (maybe split out the tiddler storeArea to a separate file?), and I’m enjoying my versioned and key-free existence, but hmm…

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