Wiki -- Why?

Posted by Wes Perdue
Sep 1, 2006 at 09:44 PM

Jimbo,

Ah; you’re correct; thanks! I apologize.

That feature was easy for me to miss, probably because there’s no visual clue unless one hovers over the link. I remember now that it was added a while back, but I forgot about it.

I’ll have to give ConnectedText another try. Like I said, I want to like it; it has many compelling features.

Regarding what data might be better kept in a Wiki than an outline, I use WikidPad to keep track of all of the software I download, evaluate, and eventually purchase or uninstall—I’m a CRIMPer like many others who post here. I keep lists of software: ToLookAt, UnderEvaluation, Rejected, as well as registered software by classification. I like how hyperlinks are automatically created whenever I type a program. This feature allows for interesting interconnections.

Regarding MDE InfoHander, I’m nearing the end of my 60-day eval. I haven’t had much time to play with it, but hope to do so this upcoming long weekend. It’s taking a bit more effort for me to make a decision; as Daly said, it’s something different, unlike an outliner or a wiki. It feels more like a database to me than anything else, and I’m having a difficult time figuring how to put data into it in a manageable way. I’ve got a vocabulary I need to study for a class I’m taking; I think this will be a good data set to use to take InfoHandler for a spin.

I think part of my difficulty is in using tags. For some reason I have a difficult time organizing data by tags. I tried ndxCards, but abandoned it; I really didn’t like its query interface. I couldn’t really figure out how to tag things consistently in del.icio.us, so I use Spurl instead—Spurl allows you to sort your bookmarks into a tree as well as by tag.

InfoHandler seems _much_ more powerful, with a very nice query interface, so I hope I “get” tags this time.

- Wes