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Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 19, 2007 at 08:07 AM
Hi all.
Each time, Manfred talks about ConnectedText I feel the urge to give it a try. But I have always been held back by the fact that CT does not run on the Mac (I know I can run Windows using VMware or Parallels - but my favorite notebook does not have an Intel CPU).
So: Is there a Wiki tool similar to ConnectedText that runs on Windows and Mac OS X?
What I am interested in particularly is what John O’Connor described as:
>“In Connectedtext as soon as you have entered a “card” that contains a shared keyword
>with an existing “card” you can see that there is a connection.”
Franz
Posted by Franz Grieser
Oct 19, 2007 at 08:17 AM
Hi.
Let me add a few features that I need/would like:
MUST HAVE
* Full-text search (with Boolean operators)
* Searching through several Wikis
* Support for bold, italic, strikethrough
* Tables
* Bulleted lists
* Insertion of images
* Ability to have several notes (in windows) open at the same time
* Bookmarks for notes
* Navigator that shows topic relationships (as in CT)
NICE TO HAVE
* Save searches
* Use of styles for formatting paragraphs
* History navigation
* Export to RTF
* German spellchecker
Franz
Posted by Ike Washington
Oct 19, 2007 at 11:57 AM
Why not set up a locally hosted personal wiki using Mediawiki, the open source application behind Wikipedia? Gina Trapani’s instructions at Lifehacker worked fine for me: http://lifehacker.com/software/wikipedia/geek-to-live—set-up-your-personal-wikipedia-163707.php
Big difference compared to CT: you’re saved from having yet another window open; the wiki is inside Firefox.
I can pretty much tick off most of Franz’s wiki requirements: since I’m using Mediawiki and Firefox as platforms for the wiki, I can draw on their extensions; I’m able to draw on other applications which interact with Firefox - particularly DT Search.
Big drawback for Franz may be that Mediawiki only gives you one wiki. This isn’t a problem for me. I’m using the wiki to store preliminary notes for potential research topics. The aim is to get the notes to cross-fertilise, produce those aha moments. But it would be easy enough to set off projects using categories.
It’s also possible, though I haven’t tried this, to put a local Mediawiki on a stick and so take it from machine to machine.
The tech side of setting up the local Mediawiki may seem daunting at first. Just follow Gina’s excellent instructions.
The main drawbacks for me have been that it’s a bit slow, a couple of seconds, to open up at first. And adding photographs is a couple of clicks rather than CT’s drag and drop.
Ike
Posted by Ike Washington
Oct 19, 2007 at 12:05 PM
Franz
My big mistake. Gina’s instructions are for a Windows XP computer… I just presumed it would be cross platform.
This looks like a Mac route to a personal wiki: http://macmegasite.com/node/2506
Ike
Posted by Thomas
Oct 19, 2007 at 02:57 PM
I only know of one desktop wiki that runs on both PC and Mac.
NoteStudio, from http://www.dogmelon.com.au/ns/
Not sure how many of your requirements it will fulfill.
Moreover, the development was frozen not so long ago, though they are looking for someone to take over.