Discovery: TiddlyWiki
A discovery which I think may be of value to some people: TiddlyWiki. This is a fairly complete Wiki, implemented as a single HTML file - albeit one rather heavy on the Javascript. You all know what a Wiki is - you have all used Wikipedia. It is a set of hypertext-linked pages which can be freely edited - and quite easily so, once you learn the style.
Which makes TiddlyWiki a great vehicle for a non-linear notebook for project planning. Or a journal - it has a special button for creating a new journal entry, and of course links to web pages are trivially easy.
The ingenious thing about TiddlyWiki is that it manages to save itself, and all the Wiki content, into a single HTML file. Which means that you can open, read, and edit the file in any modern browser. The obvious think is to save the file onto a USB stick or equivalent. You can then open that on any computer anywhere that runs a decent browser. And backing up is just a matter of copying the file.
Just go to the site and hit the download button, which will give you a file called empty.html. For each journal or project, copy that file to a suitable new name, open it (e.g. double click), and you have a new notebook. There is a support Wiki as well.
Brilliant. Hats Off to the original designer, Jeremy Ruston. Who, apparently, is BT's Head of Open Source Innovation, which would deserve a second Hats Off, if I had two hats to take off.
Which makes TiddlyWiki a great vehicle for a non-linear notebook for project planning. Or a journal - it has a special button for creating a new journal entry, and of course links to web pages are trivially easy.
The ingenious thing about TiddlyWiki is that it manages to save itself, and all the Wiki content, into a single HTML file. Which means that you can open, read, and edit the file in any modern browser. The obvious think is to save the file onto a USB stick or equivalent. You can then open that on any computer anywhere that runs a decent browser. And backing up is just a matter of copying the file.
Just go to the site and hit the download button, which will give you a file called empty.html. For each journal or project, copy that file to a suitable new name, open it (e.g. double click), and you have a new notebook. There is a support Wiki as well.
Brilliant. Hats Off to the original designer, Jeremy Ruston. Who, apparently, is BT's Head of Open Source Innovation, which would deserve a second Hats Off, if I had two hats to take off.