DokuWiki as private personal online wiki for reading notes

Posted by Chris Thompson
Jun 4, 2018 at 05:42 PM

There isn’t really a ConnectedText equivalent to namespaces in DokuWiki. Tags are basically the same thing as ConnectedText’s categories. Namespaces are closer to folders (a page can only be in one namespace) or keeping multiple ConnectedText files. For example, you can have “personal” and “work” namespaces, the same way you might maintain two ConnectedText files.

There’s also a plugin for DokuWiki called SubjectIndex that’s more oriented towards creating detailed indexes, like the type you’d find in a long book or encyclopedia. It can coexist with tags. Unfortunately it looks like the developer no longer wants to maintain it, which is a shame, because he used to be one of the more prolific DokuWiki developers.

—Chris

Dr Andus wrote:
Hi Glen and everyone,
> >Many thanks for the suggestions so far.
> >Glen Coulthard wrote:
>>I don’t
>>use “categories” per se in Dokuwiki, but I organize content into
>>namespaces and use extensive intra-linking. (Note-to-self: Explore the
>>use of categories and tag clouds!)
> >I haven’t got my head around it completely, but I thought “namespaces”
>were the DokuWiki alternative to a CT “category”?
> >Not quite sure how “tags” are different, but this is what I found when I
>searched for it:
> >https://www.dokuwiki.org/plugin:tag