WikiAsNotepad

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Many people use a wiki script running locally as a notebook (it's really useful for connecting and organising ideas and stubs -- EmileKroeger). This is a case of FullCircle?, since Ward was inspired by Apple's HyperCard in coming up with the WikiWiki concept.

Running a CGI script has a few drawbacks:

you need Apache (built-in on most systems other than Windows)
you need perl (or whatever is needed to run the script)
you need a web browser
it's relatively slow to load and save pages, compared to a notepad application
unless you are confident with tinkering with the Apache setup, in theory anyone can see your notes when you are online. This can be prevented by using a directory for your wiki that's not visible from your localhost's front page.

An alternative would be a notepad-style application that allows you to create wikilinks between documents on your system. Several such "dead" wiki applications exist:

http://www.jera.com/wikipad/ for PalmOS
http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/ for Windows (Open Source)
a perl/Tk script: KiwiScript.
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