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Offline mpivaTopic starter

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Personal wiki
« on: January 12, 2013, 07:22:14 PM »
I'm working on an extensive writing project and need help organizing my thoughts and creations. I considered creating databases to keep track of my stories, characters, settings, fictional technology, etc. But then I thought that maybe a personal wiki might be better suited to the wide range of topics I'd like it to cover and still allow me to create relationships between the various entries.

Does anyone have any recommendations to a personal wiki that's relatively easy to use? I'm open to using a Windows program but ideally I'd like a private web-based wiki that would work with muiOWB or Timberwolf.
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Re: Personal wiki
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2013, 09:20:34 PM »
Depending on what exactly you require (privacy, security), you can either install a wiki of your own, buy a NAS including wiki software or use a hosted one.
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Re: Personal wiki
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2013, 10:19:01 PM »
@Zac67

Thanks Zac but I already know that and it doesn't address my question. I'd rather NOT try to compare and contrast the 137 wiki's listed at wikimatrix. Instead, I'm asking for people's recommendations. Plus, there's no "Works on an Amiga browser" category on wikimatrix.
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Re: Personal wiki
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2013, 11:39:51 PM »
Interesting question. I don't have a recommendation, but I've tracked my own thoughts in branching-tree format for a long time, by egregious abuse of indentation levels in a text editor...works for me, but you'd have to think there'd be a few better organizer programs out there. I know there's an old Win16 program that's sort of like this, but I'm damned if I can remember the name and anyway it wasn't very good.

If it came down to it, you could use a simple personal test server like QuickPHP coupled with a folder of simple HTML files...
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