Blogs and wikis

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Posted by pma
2005-11-28 10:12:07

Have any of you used blogs/weblogs or wikis for note management? Many of these in reality work similar to Evernote, in that you have all your notes cronologically, and in many of these tools, you can also tag each entry, which is useful for categorising material, without having to order it in a strict outline.

See e.g. http://www.digitaldimsum.co.uk/, which is a so-called ‘TiddlyWiki’

Also in regular blogs, e.g. on the blogger.com, I think that it is possible to add tags or categories. At least, in various available blogs, you can often choose to see entries from specific categories.

There is even something called k-logs (knowledge logs), but it seems to have vanished again. Most posts about it are a couple of years old. See http://groups.yahoo.com/group/klogs/message/211 for a (rather dated) description.

http://www.gurteen.com/ seems to have quite a lot of stuff about this way of managing knowledge.

I also found a tool that allows you to update your blog locally on you machine and sync with the blog server. Here the categories seems to be in a tree. However, I couldn’t get it to sync with my blog at blogger.com. It says that the username and the url don’t match. However, the tool can be found here: http://imhoproject.org

Then there is the whole wiki-world, like wikipedia, wiki-books and wikiversity. This is another way of thinking about knowledge. A social way.

And in connection with this, the OPML Editor (see the left hand menu) allows outlines in outlines (which means that you can “link” to an external outline, through an URL, and then this becomes part of your own outline.

I wondered, if del.icio.us could be extended to blogs / notes, it would be really interesting, as this would allow you to integrate your own notes with other people’s notes on e.g. references.

One of the interesting things about this approach is, that your notes will always be online, so you can access it from whereever you want. Yahoo is even starting up a service, where you can blog from you mobile phone: http://mobile.yahoo.com/mblog

What experience do you have in using these tools in relation to writing and research?

Peter.

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