Personal wiki

A personal wiki is wiki software that allows individual users to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis, but without collaborative software or multiple users. Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into two categories: Multi-user applications with personal editions (such as MoinMoin or TWiki), installed for standalone use and inaccessible to outside users, which may require additional software such as a web server, database management system and/or WAMP/LAMP bundle Applications designed for single users, not dependent on a database engine or web server Some personal wikis are public, but password-protected, and run on dedicated web servers or are hosted by third parties. Multi-user wiki applications with personal editions include: MoinMoin desktop edition (written in Python) TWiki for Windows Personal and Certified TWiki (both written in Perl) MediaWiki (powers Wikipedia and many other wikis, written in PHP) DokuWiki on a Stick (written in PHP), which utilizes plain text files (and thus does not need a database like MediaWiki) and a syntax similar to MediaWiki There are also wiki applications designed for personal use, apps for mobile use, and apps for use from USB flash drives. They often include more features than traditional wikis, including: Dynamic tree views of the wiki Drag-and-drop support for images, text and video, mathematics Use of OLE or Linkback to allow wikis to act as relational superstructures for multiple desktop-type documents Multimedia embedding, with links to internal aspects of movies, soundtracks, notes and comments Macros and macro scripting Notable examples include: ConnectedText, a commercial Windows-based personal wiki system that includes full-text searches, a visual link tree, a customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, HTML and HTML Help exporting, and plug-ins Gnote, a port of Tomboy to C++ (although not all plug-ins have been ported) MyInfo, a Windows-based free form personal information manager that includes wiki-style linking between notes, full-text search, different views of the note list, and web-site export Obsidian is a knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files.

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Note-taking

Note-taking (sometimes written as notetaking or note taking) is the practice of recording information from different sources and platforms. By taking notes, the writer records the essence of the information, freeing their mind from having to recall everything. Notes are commonly drawn from a transient source, such as an oral discussion at a meeting, or a lecture (notes of a meeting are usually called minutes), in which case the notes may be the only record of the event.

A Study of the Acceptability of a Web 2.0 Application by Higher-education Students undertaking Collaborative Laboratory Activities

Denis Gillet, Christophe Salzmann

This paper presents the findings of a study on the acceptability in higher education of a Web 2.0 collaborative application, namely eLogbook. The latter offers several features for sustaining collaboration and supporting personal and group learning. It was ...

IEEE Computer Society Press2009