Comments on: Thick or thin? http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/06/03/733/ The journey of a reluctant writer Tue, 07 Oct 2008 17:02:35 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: jeff http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/06/03/733/#comment-506 jeff Mon, 04 Jun 2007 18:00:16 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/06/03/733/#comment-506 I thought about that, too, and in fact have tried this in the past. Two major downsides. One, a secure wiki can be a pain to log into every time I want to check something. Two, wikis just aren't fast enough for data capture, they still feel to clumsy to me and interrupt my workflow. I thought about that, too, and in fact have tried this in the past. Two major downsides. One, a secure wiki can be a pain to log into every time I want to check something. Two, wikis just aren’t fast enough for data capture, they still feel to clumsy to me and interrupt my workflow.

]]> By: dalelane http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/06/03/733/#comment-505 dalelane Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:49:55 +0000 http://www.jeffkirvin.net/2007/06/03/733/#comment-505 I think wikis are the answer. Personal wikis - until network access when mobile becomes ubiquitous - but wikis nevertheless. A wiki is a great way to capture and organise information - in a way that suits your needs. And when on a desktop or laptop, you can have rich (AJAX-y?) environments with all the toolbars and GUI-niceties that you want. Synced with mobile devices, you can get the same information. This could be just to refer to, treating it essentially as your own projects website. Quick and easy. Or it could be to work on - just a basic text editor which understands wiki markup is enough - making it suitable for less powerful PDA's. This has been my approach for a while now - on Palm, NoteStudio is my favourite. On Windows Mobile it's been more of a struggle to find something that I like - to the extent where I actually wrote my own implementation! And it works for me - a place to draft anything from emails to articles, and keep track on information for all my projects. I wonder why stuff like NoteStudio hasn't taken off more than it has... why isn't everyone using wikis? I think wikis are the answer. Personal wikis - until network access when mobile becomes ubiquitous - but wikis nevertheless.

A wiki is a great way to capture and organise information - in a way that suits your needs.

And when on a desktop or laptop, you can have rich (AJAX-y?) environments with all the toolbars and GUI-niceties that you want.

Synced with mobile devices, you can get the same information. This could be just to refer to, treating it essentially as your own projects website. Quick and easy.

Or it could be to work on - just a basic text editor which understands wiki markup is enough - making it suitable for less powerful PDA’s.

This has been my approach for a while now - on Palm, NoteStudio is my favourite. On Windows Mobile it’s been more of a struggle to find something that I like - to the extent where I actually wrote my own implementation!

And it works for me - a place to draft anything from emails to articles, and keep track on information for all my projects.

I wonder why stuff like NoteStudio hasn’t taken off more than it has… why isn’t everyone using wikis?

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