Fiddly Tiddly
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pasitheaWell. Rebuilding my stuff after drive crash has taught me that WikityWidget in addition to being no longer supported and somewhat limited in its behavior was also not in my regular backups. So... Goodbye personal wiki. ;-;
But... Hey. Good time to check out other personal wikis. In spite of the insipid name TiddlyWiki looks like it is the winner of the next wiki I'll use. It stores everything in a single HTML file with the help of Java. Without the JAR in the same directory it simply becomes a read-only wiki so I can export just the html file to my phone and have a copy of my personal wiki with me anywhere. (This is handy since I'm planning to condense a bunch of my cookbooks and favorite recipes into just what I use) and of course if I synch is correctly, I can access it from anywhere and it appears that I can just copy the default html to as many htmls as I want and make 'special' wikis which can then be linked via URLs instead of wiki links, allowing me to keep secret projects limited to one machine and so on.
On the downside, it has no security beyond filesystem security and I'm a little concerned about performance of a single giant HTML page but I suspect my use is limited enough it won't be a major issue. Not to mention I always have a web browser running anyhow so the extra memory this might take vs having mysql and a navigator widget always running (as was the case with wikitywidget) probably balances out. Will have to see in a few months.
But... Hey. Good time to check out other personal wikis. In spite of the insipid name TiddlyWiki looks like it is the winner of the next wiki I'll use. It stores everything in a single HTML file with the help of Java. Without the JAR in the same directory it simply becomes a read-only wiki so I can export just the html file to my phone and have a copy of my personal wiki with me anywhere. (This is handy since I'm planning to condense a bunch of my cookbooks and favorite recipes into just what I use) and of course if I synch is correctly, I can access it from anywhere and it appears that I can just copy the default html to as many htmls as I want and make 'special' wikis which can then be linked via URLs instead of wiki links, allowing me to keep secret projects limited to one machine and so on.
On the downside, it has no security beyond filesystem security and I'm a little concerned about performance of a single giant HTML page but I suspect my use is limited enough it won't be a major issue. Not to mention I always have a web browser running anyhow so the extra memory this might take vs having mysql and a navigator widget always running (as was the case with wikitywidget) probably balances out. Will have to see in a few months.
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Date: 2010-02-09 10:06 pm (UTC)Anyhow. Suffice to say, the HTML version is a lot more typing and a lot more line-noise-looking than the wiki text version. It took me about 5 times as long to type as the wiki text version and I know HTML from memory and don't need to look anything up.