OT: looking for a local wikipad

[Rajinder Yadav]

Rajinder Yadav wrote:
> Daniel Armstrong wrote:
>> On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 7:20 PM, Rajinder Yadav <devguy.ca-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> 
>> wrote:
>>> On Windows I use Wikidpad, it is a local wiki notepad, is there 
>>> something
>>> like this for Linux? I don't want to install setup a server etc.
>>
>> If you are running Gnome you might want to check out Tomboy -
>> http://projects.gnome.org/tomboy/features.html - I haven't used it
>> myself but it was mentioned to me again today and I plan to check it
>> out.
>>
>> Anyone using it?
>>
> FYI: I just installed it (tomboy) my KDE, you don't need to be running 
> on Gnome. If you're on ubuntu or debain missing dependencies will 
> usually get downloaded. In my case I didn't need to download anything 
> other than Tomboy.
> 
> Tomboy is just ok, I don't like that fact that it needs to open a new 
> notepad when I jump from topic to topic. I don't see a way in the 
> setting to be able to navigate in a single view.
> 
> 1) I also don't like having to use the menu to markup text i.e making it 
> bold or highlighted
> 
> 2) Would also be nice to display a parent/child tree structure like 
> wikidpad does. I find that more useful than a list of notes.
> 
> For what it's worth I prefer Scott's mention of 'TiddlyWiki', nothing to 
> install, works like you come to expect a wiki should work, plus you have 
> good search support.
> 
> I ended up purge(ing) tomboy.
> 

The other nice thing about TiddlyWiki, is the ability to create tags for 
each wiki page. Daniel, you might want to take a look at this also over 
tomboy.

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Rajinder Yadav

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