DokuWiki as private personal online wiki for reading notes

Posted by Lucas
Jun 8, 2018 at 03:10 AM

A few months ago I also reached a point where DokuWiki seemed like the way to go for a personal wiki, so I spent some time trying to set it up to my satisfaction. (I used Bitnami, which for my purposes worked great.) Unfortunately, even with the various plugins available, I was unsuccessful in trying to fully implement some of the functionality I really like in ConnectedText (and to some extent WikidPad and Voodoopad), such as automatic linking, autocompletion of link names, listing of backlinks, and wiki-wide changing of link-name instances. Some of these features are available to certain degrees with plugins, but I found the experience frustrating in terms of what I was looking for, and as has been noted, plugins are often dropped by developers. True, DokuWiki probably is the best cross-platform solution for my needs as well, but for now I am holding out until some more features are added or something better comes along.