Wiki for Fiction Writing

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Jan 3, 2009 at 10:08 PM

I have a license for both Connected Text and Voodoo Pad, but as of yet do not use either one extensively. I like the idea of a personal wiki, but have yet to really commit any serious work to them. However, I did want to add a couple of comments to the comparison of these two programs. Manfred is absolutely right that CT is far more powerful and packed with useful functions. Where VP has the upper hand, in my opinion, is in two ways: First, it is pretty easy to learn and use right away; and, Second, its editor is far superior. Basically it is a full-fledged word processor. One of the problems with CT and other PC-based wikis is that the editors are generally fairly limited… and you need to use arcane commands to add bullets, bold type, italics, etc… When I saw “arcane,” I don’t really mean difficult, but there is no standardization in these commands, so the way to make bold type in CT is different than the way to make bold type in Wikidpad, for instance. In VP, you format text pretty much the way you would in any word processor.

Beyond that, VP is the only personal wiki I’ve found for Mac.

Steve Z.