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Vis-à-Wiki - a desktop wiki with a visual concept mapper
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Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 17, 2014 at 09:23 PM
In another thread I posted a link a month ago to an interesting WYSIWYG markdown editor called Marko Editor. Upon visiting the page again today I saw another software there called Vis-à-Wiki, which looks like a combination of a desktop wiki using Markdown with an integrated concept mapper:
http://marko-editor.com/vis-a-wiki/
I find this quite a fascinating concept. Check out the video to see how it works:
Unfortunately, the developer has taken off the downloads both for Marko Editor and Vis-à-Wiki, citing some sort of licensing dilemmas. He is asking for advice on how to share these files, so if you can help him, you can contact him here:
http://marko-editor.com/download/
It would be great if this Vis-à-Wiki could get off the ground, as it sounds like a rather interesting and unique concept.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 21, 2014 at 12:47 PM
The developer of Marko Editor and Vis-à-Wiki has now also asked for licensing advice at the following forums, in case anyone here has some answers for him:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8640770
http://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=39584.msg369607#msg369607
Posted by Hugh
Nov 21, 2014 at 05:27 PM
It certainly looks interesting. But regrettably I could not get the video to play.
Posted by Dr Andus
Nov 21, 2014 at 05:40 PM
Hugh wrote:
It certainly looks interesting. But regrettably I could not get the
>video to play.
You can watch it on Youtube. It does work over here:
What’s interesting to me about it, besides the fact that it is a wiki, is that it combines the wiki (linking) functionality with a concept mapping one (so you can add a link to a node on a concept map and it takes you to the wiki document), and then the concept map can be overlayed on a grid, so you can organise the nodes (and the notes) into a project layout (or different chapters, or whatever else you want the grid columns and rows to stand for).
Posted by Hugh
Nov 21, 2014 at 05:42 PM
As regards the risks of litigation, I’m not a lawyer. But I would have thought that pursuing his software development role through a small, private company, possibly off-the-shelf, or through a contractual link with other developers who already have such a set-up, would be the wisest way to protect the developer personally, not just from the risks of potential patent litigation but also from any other legal threats that may arise. But as I say, I’m no lawyer - and naturally the costs of such a course might well outweigh the benefits to him.