Wiki -- Why?

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Sep 2, 2006 at 01:06 AM

Daly de Gagne wrote:
>Again I am trying out Connected Text, and again I am wondering, why wiki?

Daly,

Well, I think it is fair to say that whether or not you like the wiki way will depend upon your own sensibilities. Other than Zoot, all my PIM/Outliner/Wiki use is still somewhat of a trial. I use ConnectedText at home and see a lot of power in this approach. Generally, it seems to me that the power in wikis is that they allow you to create structure on the fly. In this way, it is a more organic approach to data management. Also, your information is organized in a more three-dimensional way than in a typical hierarchical tree. That is, Item A can link to Item B which can link to Item C which can link back to Item A. Of course, other programs have hyperlinks, so this advantage may be diminished some, but there remains the ease of creating the links.

Specifically, CT offers some wonderful features. My favorite is the ability to add categories to any article. So, for instance, you can create a category called “Contact” and the article is automatically indexed in an article called “Contact.” Now you can click on that article and see all you contacts listed alphabetically with with hyperlinks automatically in place. Pretty neat.

Steve Z.