I wrote a personal wiki like 10 years ago... In addition to being a great productivity boost for me, it helped me learn a lot about web programming. It's continued to evolve over the years.
I have 1899 active pages now (some pages were deleted over the years).
I try to keep it very close to plain text, and don't have a lot of doodads in the wiki syntax.
I don't think plain text is sufficient for taking notes, because it lacks hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are incredibly important because they are associative and non-hierarchical... that is exactly what you need for note taking and brainstorming.
I do everything with vim/bash/tmux but you still want to be able to click links with a mouse when reviewing notes, and create them effortlessly when writing.
> Hyperlinks are incredibly important because they are associative and non-hierarchical... that is exactly what you need for note taking and brainstorming.
I organize my Org mode wiki like Wikipedia: each document/topic can be linked from multiple parent documents/topics. So documents/topics are organized using a combination of both tagging and hierarchies. I've heard this type of organization referred to as hierarchical tagging.
I have 1899 active pages now (some pages were deleted over the years).
I try to keep it very close to plain text, and don't have a lot of doodads in the wiki syntax.
I don't think plain text is sufficient for taking notes, because it lacks hyperlinks. Hyperlinks are incredibly important because they are associative and non-hierarchical... that is exactly what you need for note taking and brainstorming.
I do everything with vim/bash/tmux but you still want to be able to click links with a mouse when reviewing notes, and create them effortlessly when writing.