Late night brain dump

It’s late and I’m not thinking to clearly, but I have a couple of ideas bouncing around in my head that I want to get down so I don’t forget about them.

Inspiration

I want to start collecting insprational designs, screens, interface, etc. Back when I used OneNote all the time, I would save interesting screenshots. Alas, these are the days of the internets and OneNote has fallen out of favor. Do I start a new blog? Do I post these to Flickr? I’m inspired by Dan Saffer’s No Ideas But In Things weblog and demos of the new Backpack, Scrybe and Joyent demos and Swarmf. This leads me into my next thought…

All Wikis Suck

No, seriously. Every open source wiki sucks (sorry Roy). JotSpot does not totally suck. StikiPad isn’t too bad either. PBWiki sucks. I want OneNote for the web, and I want it now. The new Backpack is very intiguing to me.

Speaking of Wikis

I need to find a lightweight PHP-based wiki for me school website. I probably don’t have .htaccess available to me, and I’d like to avoid database servers. Does anything like this exist? Most of the active wiki projects out there are either; (1) bloated out of control, (2) too hard to setup, or (3) too hard to use. I just want something where I can create pages with Markdown, edit them via the web and (optionally) track revisions. Most importantly, I don’t want or need a heavy install. Very basic wiki stuff, but hard to get without the kitchen sink.

Ok, so that was more of a rant than I thought it would be.

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4 Responses to “Late night brain dump”

  1. Roy said
    10/22/06 @ 5:13 am

    Hey Jackson!

    No offense taken ;D

    Have you taken a look at PmWiki (http://pmwiki.org)? Doesn’t require mySQL, has the option to turn off clean urls (so no .htaccess required), PHP, with a pretty straightforward installation. It’s also got a MarkDown plugin (http://www.pmwiki.org/wiki/Cookbook/MarkdownMarkupExtension).

  2. jackson said
    10/22/06 @ 10:08 am

    I have used PmWiki, and it’s probably my favorite wiki right now. My main complaint is that it tends to need lots of plugins and tweaking to make it “just right”. I’ve had problems getting the Markdown plugin to work right, but I’m going to give it another try.

  3. jackson said
    10/22/06 @ 5:06 pm

    The more I think about it, what I really want is Instiki. If Instiki was written in PHP, was actively developed, and was a lot more reliable.

  4. David Weekly said
    10/28/07 @ 1:24 am

    Care to elaborate on why PBwiki sucks? Think it still does? ;)