I’ve mentioned several times how fond I am of wikis these days. We’ve run several successfuly at work, including my favorite, the romantic audiences project, and I’ve been promising for at least a year to get one up and running here on daves-place (which I still promise…actually there are three running at present, I just haven’t decided which one to go with). Anyway for work I’ve been investigating wiki engines again and in the course of doing so stumbled upon several desktop wiki software packages. In a word, they’re brilliant. I encourage all you pc users to go check out wikipad. Mac users, give voodoopad. In either case what you’ll get is a very easy to use, infinitely flexible desktop database/to do list/documentation system/place to store all the crap that you need to remember that you can never seem to actually remember.

These suffer in comparison to actual server-based wikis in that they’re tied to your desktop of course, so the information doesn’t follow you around the way it does in a real wiki, and niter of them has a complete feature set when compared to some of the best wiki engines. But give them a try, it’s a fantastic way to get an introduction to the concept and play around with one.