Potato I have

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).

I mentioned in an earlier post about groove and synchronization that I was more interested in using subversion to synchronize my work on multiple computers — an idea I first saw in this Martin Fowler post.

Adding a mac to our home has finally forced the issue, and I’ve now got a subversion repository on the mac for synch’ing my stuff across different machines. I’ve not pushed the Multiple Desktops idea very far yet — I hope to report back on that later — but I took some subversion setup notes in case you’re trying to do something similar.

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