A personal wiki is wiki software that allows individual users to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis, but without collaborative software or multiple users.
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Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into two categories:
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- Multi-user applications with personal editions (such as MoinMoin or TWiki), installed for standalone use and inaccessible to outside users, which may require additional software such as a web server, database management system and/or WAMP/LAMP bundle[1]
- Applications designed for single users, not dependent on a database engine or web server
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Some personal wikis are public, but password-protected, and run on dedicated web servers or are hosted by third parties.
Multi-user wiki software[edit]
Multi-user wiki applications with personal editions include:
- MoinMoin desktop edition (written in Python)[2]
- TWiki for Windows Personal and Certified TWiki (both written in Perl)
- DokuWiki on a Stick (written in PHP), which utilizes plain text files (and thus does not need a database) and a syntax similar to MediaWiki
Single-user wiki software[edit]
There are also wiki applications designed for personal use,[3] apps for mobile use,[4] and apps for use from USB flash drives.[5] They often include more features than traditional wikis, including:
- Dynamic tree views of the wiki
- Drag-and-drop support for images, text and video, mathematics
- Use of OLE or Linkback to allow wikis to act as relational superstructures for multiple desktop-type documents
- Multimedia embedding, with links to internal aspects of movies, soundtracks, notes and comments
- Macros and macro scripting
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Notable examples include:
- ConnectedText, a commercial Windows-based personal wiki system that includes full-text searches, a visual link tree, a customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, HTML and HTML Help exporting, and plug-ins[6]
- Gnote, a port of Tomboy to C++ (although not all plug-ins have been ported)
- org-mode, an Emacs mode that can create documents that are interlinked, converted to HTML, and automatically uploaded to a web server
- TiddlyWiki, a highly customizable personal wiki written in HTML and JavaScript;[7] it is provided as a single HTML file or multiple Node-js files, features many tools and plugins, and has been in active development since 2004 as free and open-source (BSD) software with an active community
- Tomboy, a (LGPL) free software wiki-style note-taking program that allows easy organisation of any hierarchical data, hosted on GNOMECVS
- Vim, which can be used as a personal wiki via plugins such as Vimwiki[8]
- WikidPad, a free, open-source standalone wiki notebook/outliner with such features as dynamic tree generation, topic tagging, auto-completion, full-text searches, visual link tree, customizable interface, and image and file control
- Zim, a free, open-source standalone wiki based on Python and GTK, with a WYSIWYG editor[9]
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References[edit]
- ^Trapani, Gina, Geek to Live: How to host a personal wiki on your home computer, lifehacker.com, 2005-9-16. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^Zukerman, Erez, Editorial Review of MoinMoin, PCWorld, pcworld.com, 2012-3-23. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^WikiMatrix search for personal wiki software, wikimatrix.org. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^Personal wiki Apps - Android, androidzoom.com. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^Run Your Personal Wikipedia from a USB Stick, lifehacker.com. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^What is ConnectedText?, ConnectedText - The Personal Wiki System, connectedtext.com. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^Brockmeier, Joe, Weekend Project: Set Up a Personal Wiki on Linux with TiddlyWiki, Linux.com, 2011-3-4. Accessed 2012-4-17.
- ^List of Vim Plugins tagged 'wiki', Vim Awesome, 2017-02-01. Accessed 2017-02-01.
- ^Zukerman, Erez, Editorial Review of Zim, PCWorld, pcworld.com, 2012-3-12. Accessed 2012-4-17.
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The following is a list of personal information managers (PIMs) and online organizers.
Applications[edit]
| PIM application | Platform(s) | Software license | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3D Topicscape | Windows | Commercial | organizes information into 3D landscapes |
| Calendar | macOS | Commercial | Included with macOS |
| Outlook Calendar on Outlook.com | Web | Freeware | Has a freeware offline client, Calendar (Windows) |
| Gubb | Web | Freeware | |
| CintaNotes | Windows | Freemium | organizes information as notes, grouped using tags |
| DigiDrawer | Linux, Windows, macOS, others | Commercial | Organizes personal, properties, vehicles and business information for small groups |
| eM Client | Windows | Freemium | Personal information manager, Email client, Calendaring software |
| Evernote | macOS, Windows, Web, Android | Commercial | |
| Evolution | Linux, Unix, GNOME | GPL | Included with GNOME |
| Google Calendar | Web | Freeware | |
| GroupWise | Linux, macOS, Windows, Web | Commercial | |
| IBM Notes | Linux, macOS, Windows | Commercial | |
| ical | Cross-platform | GPL | |
| Kontact | Linux, Windows, Unix, macOS, KDE | GPL | Included with KDE |
| Leo | Linux, Windows, macOS | MIT | Python-scriptable folding editor/IDE organized around multiple views (clones) of underlying text spread across files. Inspired by literate programming and similar to org-mode. |
| Lightning | Linux, Windows, macOS, others | MPL, GPL, LGPL | Addon for the Thunderbird e-mail client |
| Micasabook | Linux, Windows, macOS | Commercial | Organizes personal, properties, vehicles and business information for families |
| Microsoft Outlook | Windows, macOS | Commercial | |
| mobile PhoneTools | Windows | Commercial | |
| MyInfo | Windows | Commercial | Free form personal information manager |
| OneNote | Windows, macOS, Web, Android, Windows Phone | Freeware | Notes manager |
| org-mode | Cross-platform | GPL | Integrates with Emacs BBDB for contact management support, web browsers for hyperlink storing support. Free iPhone and Android apps available (Orgzly, MobileOrg and Beorg) |
| Outline | macOS, iOS | Commercial | |
| Personal Knowbase | Windows | Commercial | Freeform note-taking organizer. Portable. |
| Planz | Windows | MIT | Provides a single, integrative document-like view of personal information as an overlay to the user's file system. |
| Plaxo | Web | Commercial | |
| Remember the Milk | Web | Freemium | |
| Tabbles | Windows | Freemium | Tagging and auto-tagging of files, emails and bookmarks. Tag-sharing for files on shared-drives or in the Cloud. |
| TagSpaces | Cross-platform | AGPL | Offline application for PC, smartphone or tablet. Personal 'wiki' for project tracking and storage of information. |
| Taskwarrior | Linux, semi-cross-platform (Windows Subsystem for Linux, Cygwin) | MIT | Time and task management tool with command-line interface. |
| Things | macOS | Commercial | Task management and scheduling |
| TiddlyWiki | Cross-platform | BSD 3-clause | Single HTML file application used directly in browser that facilitates content reuse. |
| Tinderbox | macOS | Commercial | |
| TopXNotes | macOS | Commercial | Hybrid personal note and information organizer |
| Treasuremytext | Cross-platform | Commercial | Archiving personal messages |
| Whizfolders | Windows | Commercial | Hybrid Note-taking software and outliner |
| WikidPad | Cross-platform | BSD 3-clause | Python-based wiki-like outliner |
| Windows Contacts | Windows | Commercial | Included with Windows 7, 8 and 10 |
| Wrike | Web | Commercial | |
| Yahoo! Calendar | Web | Freeware | |
| Yojimbo | macOS | Commercial | 'Personal information manager' |
| Zim | Cross-platform | GPL | Graphical text editor designed to maintain a collection of locally stored wiki-pages. |
| SuperMemo | Windows | Commercial (with freeware older versions) | Spaced repetition, Incremental reading, Task management and more. |
Discontinued applications[edit]
| PIM application | Platform(s) | Software license | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| askSam | DOS, Windows | Commercial | Free form database |
| Backpack | Web | Commercial | Todo list and calendar |
| Chandler | Linux, OS X, Windows | Apache | Free form approach based on Lotus Agenda |
| Ecco Pro | Windows | Freeware | organizes information via full power outline and tag assignments. (Tags can contain text, numeric, or date data. Date data automatically mapped to calendar.) |
| Google Notebook | Web | Freeware | deprecated by Google Docs, Google Keep |
| Haystack | all operating systems with POSIX and Java | MIT | |
| Hula | Linux | GPL | Replaced by Bongo project |
| IBM Lotus Organizer | Windows | Commercial | 2003–2013 |
| ideaList | DOS, Windows, Mac | Commercial | Free form database |
| Lotus Agenda | DOS | Freeware | deprecated by IBM Lotus Organizer |
| Meeting Maker | Linux, OS X, Solaris | Commercial | |
| Microsoft Entourage | OS X | Commercial | deprecated by Microsoft Outlook for Mac |
| MORE, GrandView | Classic Mac OS, DOS | Commercial | 1986–1990 |
| Mozilla Calendar Project | Linux, BSD UNIX, OpenSolaris, Solaris, OS X, Windows, OS/2 | MPL | deprecated by Lightning |
| Mozilla Sunbird | Linux, BSD UNIX, OpenSolaris, Solaris, OS X, Windows, OS/2 | MPL, GPL, LGPL | deprecated by Lightning |
| Palm Desktop | Mac OS, Windows | Commercial | |
| Sidekick | DOS, Windows | Commercial | 1983–1999 |
| Spicebird | Cross-platform | GPL, LGPL, MPL | deprecated by Lightning |
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Comparisons[edit]
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Lists[edit]
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External links[edit]
- Freeware PIMs at Curlie
- Shareware PIMs for Windows at Curlie
- PIMs as Web Applications at Curlie
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