As someone who is starting to write again, I think a personal wiki would be an awesome tool to have. This could be especially useful in areas such as world and character building, keeping facts, traits, locations etc. consistent.

I was glancing at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wiki_software and I ran across http://tiddlywiki.com/ and it is the basic gist of what I want, but isn't really that strong. The reason I looked at tiddlywiki at first is because I knew it could be kept on a USB drive or something easy. Being that portable isnt a 100% must, but it would be a preference at least since it would be nice to have this around even when not online.

Anyone have any recommendations, personal experiences with this stuff?

11/17/2009 11:22:52 AM

http://php.opensourcecms.com/scripts/show.php?catid=8&cat=Wiki

Try some out

11/17/2009 11:30:56 AM

appreciate it.

11/17/2009 12:51:42 PM

I recently began using Zim wiki (http://zim-wiki.org/) on my Ubuntu desktop and I'm liking it so far. It's a WYSIWYG wiki and is very easy to start using.

It uses GTK-Perl so you might have to install some more stuff when you try it on Windows. As for being portable, I think you can export it to an HTML file(s).

11/17/2009 10:52:39 PM

WAMP (assuming you're using Windows, if Mac, MAMP) + MediaWiki. DONE.

11/17/2009 10:55:40 PM

if you're doing writing, something like a mind mapping approach might be more helpful than a wiki approach. i don't have any particular applications to recommend, but it might be a tool you didn't know about that could work better

11/17/2009 11:01:39 PM

just caught back up with the thread here. I appreciate the additional responses and will definitely look into all of them

11/18/2009 8:58:44 AM

OneNote or EverNote + DropBox FTW

11/18/2009 11:48:49 AM