Mnemoscene: back to the wikis
I mentioned, in the last entry, that I'm working on a digital RPG. Well, for me, world-building happens through wikis. Arguably, I think in wikis ... or, rather in hypertext. I appreciate how deciding the size of the lexia helps give a concrete border to the atomic size of an element. I like how forging links pushes me to consider what object
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I like the strange and nerdy portability of Dokuwiki documentation. Dokuwiki's data all sits in .txt files with, you know, light markup, but its not hidden in a database and you bring to bear all the manipulations that you can run on plaintext to it. Yum.
I've run a bunch of other hypertext engines. I love Tinderbox, for instance. But I can't throw Tinderbox files up on a server and edit them from three different computers and my iPad based on where I happen to be sitting when an idea comes along. Stuff like Evernote comes closer, it's always there and syncs nicely, but it's not great at true hypertext, which seems to be important to me.
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