Wiki for Fiction Writing

Posted by Randall Shinn
Jan 3, 2009 at 06:35 PM

I moved to OS X for music production, and because the system demands for what I am doing there are intense, I have tried to avoid using emulators and Windows programs on my Macs. While there are cases in which the Windows versions of programs are ahead of OS X versions (MindManager is one example) and vice versa, the only area where I feel comparatively slighted with OS X is with financial management software. And there seems to be no remedy for that in sight before next summer. (So in the meantime I am keeping an XP laptop in service.)

I have not tried ConnectedText, so I don’t know how it compares to the latest version of VoodooPad. And as I said, I’m not sure that I actually have a use for a personal wiki. I suppose all of us, assuming we have a choice, choose the operating system that allows us to efficiently work in the software that we spend most of our lives in. And I am finding that for me this ends up being surprisingly few programs. In fact, one of the benefits I found in switching operating systems was questioning why I had purchased any number of software programs, given that I was never using them.

Randall