One path of the Wiki Way

I finally made a decision for choosing a wiki to support my writing. I wrote about this last Thursday.

Most of the wiki engines are written by programmers for programmers. Many of them require you to have a web server and/or other software on your desktop as well as the wiki-generating software. Many of the extra programs required are freeware, but I didn't want to download extra software for this purpose.

The wiki engines that seems easiest to use, seedwiki and JotSpot, are hosted on the web. I really prefer to have my writing notes sitting safely on my own hard drive.

So, I went for a note-taking program called NoteStudio largely because it can sync with a Palm--a feature that may be very useful to me in the future.

My second choice was WikiWriter.

I found no particularly good way to explore this topic. Most of what is written on the web about wiki engines is for programmers and is very confusing to those of us who aren't in that biz (anymore).     #

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