So my compatriot is using the GTD Tiddly Wiki to try and organize his life and notes, but I have taken a different wiki road. The GTD Tiddly Wiki certainly has a lot of eye candy, and can be very easy to use, but I am finding I need a more featureful solution to dealing with my notes about umm, well, everything I do. So I chose Mediawiki. It has a lot going for it:
- Easy to install (if like me you have a web server running linux. Gentoo makes installing mediawiki a breeze)
- You have access to it from anywhere, using anyone’s computer
- You don’t have to worry as much about losing your data. A server is easy to keep backed up. When is the last time *you* backed up your thumb drive?
- Rock solid – this is after all the software that runs the gigantic Wikipedia.
- Support for media – so I can upload related photos/drawings/other media and attach that to my notes.
- Lots of good patches are available, like the one I installed that lets you make pages private.
- Running this on a webserver means it’s simple to make any part of it accessible to other people – and you can give them accounts if you want to collaborate with people on an idea.
Course, now the software engineer in me wants to do all sorts of stuff with it, which is always dangerous. Ideas so far include finding a way to integrate it with Gallery, and writing a wiki that allows Game information to be stored in a wiki – with privledged accounts for referees/GMs, and accounts with lower permissions for players.
Hrm… Wonder if I can write a plugin for PCGen.