DokuWiki as private personal online wiki for reading notes

Posted by Dr Andus
Jun 10, 2018 at 04:09 PM

Lucas wrote:
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.

Thanks for sharing your experience. Personally I don’t have any expectations of being able to replicate or even approximate CT’s functionality.

I also realise that I’d need to change the overall conceptual design of the database (to take advantage of the namespace functionality) and develop a new naming convention for the page names (as currently my CT topic names have a date and time stamp of when the note was taken, then author name and publication year, followed by a long descriptive title).

It sounds like the way forward in Dokuwiki is to keep things simple, so that there are not too many complex issues one needs to deal with later (such as mass renaming of pages or links).

It would still be nice if I could import somehow my current CT content. But I imagine that I’d need to edit the CT content to change page names, category syntax etc. and then I’d need to manually re-establish any existing links between them.