A Personal Wiki is a non-collaborative [Wiki]-like application that lets a single individual browse, edit, search, and link together their own personal collection of pages. At present there are at least four applications of this kind written in TCL/TK and downloadable: * [Wikit], the [Wiki] software that runs this website, can be run as a standalone personal Wiki. * [Notebook App] is an application designed from the ground up to be a personal Wiki. * [ProjectForum]'s demo version works very well as a PIM * [Tkoutline] doesn't have search capabilities, but it does allow browsing, editing, and linking of collections of pages. In this case the pages are outlines. Also, there is no distinction between edit mode and browse mode. * [Minkowsky] is a task, appointment and an address manager. ---- '''Suggestion for a PIM''' 2004.12.20 [WJR] Hi - I'm looking for a Tcl/Tk-based addressbook or PIM. Any recommendations? Thanks! [RA2] For a PIM wiki like, I recommend this very wiki we are writing on: Wikit. It works great! Like many have done, you can download it and install it on your hard drive. [NoteBook App] programmed by [Will Duquette] can also do the work brilliantly (stand alone no browser required). [ProjectForum]'s demo version programmed by Mark Roseman is excellent also as a PIM (it works with the browser; it comes with a dedicated server and like Tkoutline and Notebook App it is operational out of the box! This means no installation is needed!). The beauty of it is that it gives you an internet look and feel while you are working offline.. The colours are pretty... Excellent package... {LV] However, most PIMs include some degree of ''management'' functionality for the personal information. The wiki doesn't really do much - it provides one search capability. However, it doesn't provide, for instance, the ability to sort ones addresses in various manners, etc. Certainly one can easily use a wiki to collect various pieces of personal information, and then create some coarse degree of hyperlinking between pages. Which makes it functional, and free. That's not a bad way to start. Then perhaps after you've figured out what other features you need, or at least want, you can either look into enhancing the software or locating a more featureful package. [Robert Abitbol] My PIM wiki (the one I have had programmed) serves '''all''' my needs... I don't need any other software! ---- For a very very complete list of wiki engines available for download in all sorts of programming languages, click here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiEngines. We are talking here of internet '''and''' personal wikis. For a list of '''personal''' wikis written in all programming languages, click here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PersonalWiki. ---> If you'd like to change the look of your personal wiki yourself and if you know a little HTML, Eddies Wiki 1.1 is the big favourite in this arena. Download it from http://tinyted.net. More info here: http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?EddiesWiki. Eddies Wiki (also called Wiki Server) is written in C++; like ProjectForum it comes with a server and only a browser is required. ---> [Robert Abitbol] Eddies Wiki is better known in the programming circles for it enables a user to create his own html pages. But this is its only strength compared to Project Forum. Project Forum is better in all other aspects and particularly in the mabagement of the entry to the browser in the beginning: with Eddies's wiki, we have to do two operations to enter the program: open the server and open the browser. Mark Roseman's Project Forum does the operation in one instance. Also you can open many Project Forums at the time but only one Eddies Wiki.... So all in all, if making your HTML page is not an issue, go with Project Forum... ---> WxWidgets was used by RyanNorton to make an excellent cross-platform personal wiki: http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxprojects (based on Eddies Wiki) For a tcl-tk based address-book, try [Minkowsky] and report on it. I haven't tried it myself... '''Enjoy wiki!''' ----- [Category Wikit] [Category PIM]