I know this might be difficult thing to ask for, due to the varying requirements and uses of
PersonalWikis, but here's a seed wishlist for the features and characteristics of an Ideal Personal Wiki:
Standard Features:
- Use plaintext wiki pages
- Allow at least basic formatting
- URL and file linking
- Allows export to html - both of the entire wiki or 'subnodes'
- WikiWord auto-completion
- WikiWord Searching
- Incremental Searching
- A rename page function
- Allow for WikiWord aliases
- Software should be ported to PocketPC and Palm
- The Software should also be OpenSource.
Extended Features: (even more wishful)
- Is extendable using a standard scripting language
- support some sort of Tree/Outline view
- also allow some kind of mindmap / flowchart / network diagram view (see sdidesk for an idea) (even better put CamelCase on a network link and it jumps to the page. Also use includes to get diagram and linked text on a page.
- Allow the configuration of the plaintext wiki page extension (for use with less flexible wiki tools)
- Allow for definitions of Interwiki-type standards (this could allow you to use Interwiki syntax to access external applications)
- Allowing for the creation of categories (possibly using folders)
- Allowing the use of filesystem folder structures. This would essentially allow the benefits of a hierarchical structure. (This would probably be terribly difficult to implement - and I'm not sure if it's possible to do without compromising the WikiNature.)
- Some sort of wiki journal functionality - something like EmacsPlannerMode
- Encryption to store passwords and other sensitive data
To Be Perfect:
- Software released under GPL.
I've long since settled on
WikidPad, but very recently have started thinking of
TomBoy --
JaysenNaidoo
WikidPad is free at the moment. There is a link on their site. -- JRoeterd
Yes. Happily, Jason Horman released
WikidPad it under his own open source license, similar to BSD license, in June 2005 --
JaysenNaidoo