wiki
Using vim as a personal wiki
Abhijit Nadgouda over at iface thoughts describes a method of using vim as a simple wiki system, utilizing its built-in “tags” capability.
One thing I have learnt from experience is that the tool to collect and organize our information must be easily available and easy to use. And that is where vim scores higher than any other tool to build a wiki.[…]
Nowadays I use the vim as a combination of wiki and outliner to record my ideas and thoughts, documentation, tasks and even contacts.
Looks very easy to set up and use — I think I’ll give it a try.
Ars Technica: Global Text Project brings wiki textbooks to the world
“Global Text Project brings wiki textbooks to the world”
Free textbooks for everyone—that’s the goal of the Global Text Project, an initiative spearheaded by Rick Watson, a professor in the University of Georgia Terry College of Business. Watson’s goal is to produce a library of 1,000 textbooks that will be created with wiki technology and will be made available to students around the world.
globaltext.org is currently down, but you can check out the arstechnica article
Newton
http://newton.sourceforge.net/Newton is a desktop wiki applet for the GNOME2 desktop environment. You enter your notes and information in a simple wiki-like syntax and Newton formats it in rich HTML for you! It is designed to make the creation of richly formatted documents of any type as simple and quick as possible.
Linux.com reviews Tomboy
As bookmarked here a couple of months ago, Beatnik Software has a note-taking app with wiki-alike features called Tomboy. Linux.com published a review today, “Take notes with Tomboy”
A few weeks ago, I started looking around for an application that makes it easy to take notes. I do all my writing in Vim, but I wanted something that was good for quick and dirty notetaking and for organizing information without maintaining a collection of text files. After some research, I settled on Tomboy.
Tomboy is a simple desktop note-taking application for Linux and other *nix operating systems. It’s written in C# and runs on Mono. It has also just been accepted into GNOME 2.16, so Tomboy will be appearing on a lot of Linux users’ desktops soon, if it’s not there already.
