Personal Wiki/note system

PosterBoy

Hello,

I recently discovered that Instiki (http://rubyforge.org/projects/instiki/), a wiki engine has a Mac port. Why is this of use? Because you can set up your own personal wiki, locally on your Mac, to hold whatever information you could possibly want.

Instructions:

1. Download Instiki for Mac from here: http://rubyforge.org/projects/instiki/ (look for the .dmg file)
2. mount the .dmg and drag the Instiki.app file to your applications folder
3. launch Instiki.app
4. go to localhost:2500 in a web browser (or choose "Homepage" from the menu item at the top of your screen)
5. you're done, save for entering information.

You can enter information in a number of formats, such as Textile, Markdown or plain old HTML.

To create a new page, do the following.

1. on the main page (or whatever page you are on) write the title of the page you want to create wrapped in double brackets (ie: [[Recipes]]) and submit.

2. the word you specified will show up on the page with a ? beside it. click that ? to being creating the new page. Once created, the new page will be automatically hyperlinked from the original page, and can be linked to again by writing the same words again in double brackets.

One thing you should do:
Instiki needs to be running on order for you to use it. To ensure it's running all the time, add it to your list of startup/login items.

The coolest thing ever:
Instiki has it's own web server built in. That means that any other computers on your network (including Windows and Linux machines) can access your wiki by going to <local ip address of machine with instiki installed>:2500

The downside:
Information you put in Instiki is contained in a MySQL database and thus not searchable with spotlight (yet, that I know of). On the bright side, it has it's own built in search.

Have fun.

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Chealion

Having been using this the past 6 hours and actually getting into it, I've got to endorse at least trying out something like this.

For those looking for something native to Mac OS X with a little more Cocoa goodness you may want to check out FlyingMeat's VoodooPad.

Personally I tried VoodooPad when it hit 2.0 a while back but never really got into the idea. With Instiki I use the main page as my homepage and it's actually looking like it should work out.

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winwintoo

Cool!! I had tried one of the other personal wikis that all run inside an HTML page, but they only work on FireFox and were a bit clumsy I thought.

I've also tried all the other "notepad" apps and as much as they try to be all things to all people, there is always something lacking. This wiki idea is much better for me since most of what I want to keep track of arises from my web-wanderings, I don't have to launch another app to take notes - as long as I remember to have Instiki running all the time.

Thanks for the headsup, Margaret