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:
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 management 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 software does the operation in one instance. Also you can open many Project Forums at the time but only one Eddies Wiki....
Another disadvantage to Project Forum, it does not create single pages but regroups them in a group data, like Notebook does. This is just not a good idea... Eddies Wiki makes single pages...
So all in all, if making your HTML page is not an issue, and if you don't mind having a huge database with many pages instead of many pages, go with Project Forum.
Otherwise, if you don't mind a certain complexity in opening the software everytime and if you are OK with the idea of opening one version at a time, go with Eddie Edwards' Eddies' wiki....
---> 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!