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VulcanRidr 2009-07-16 01:03

Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
One of the things that I would like to see on the Nxx0 is a desktop wiki. Is it possible to package something like Zim Wiki, which is a perl-based desktop wiki for Maemo?

--vr

Nelson L. Squeeko 2009-07-16 11:26

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Check out Conboy

jalladin 2009-07-16 11:36

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
its for note taking but what other great things can it be used for, and how can it help with accessing a wiki on the desktop :o

Nelson L. Squeeko 2009-07-16 12:17

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
As far as I can tell. Zim Wiki is exactly the same as Tomboy, which Conboy is a tablet clone of. And soon there is supposed to be syncing available between Tomboy on your desktop and Conboy on your tablet.

rtrudel 2009-07-16 12:27

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by VulcanRidr (Post 304828)
One of the things that I would like to see on the Nxx0 is a desktop wiki. Is it possible to package something like Zim Wiki, which is a perl-based desktop wiki for Maemo?

--vr

Have you tried tiddlywiki?

tgalati4 2009-07-16 12:51

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
I like zim.

Since it's based on perl, it may work out of the box. But it will need maemo packaging and testing. I run it remotely through ssh and a bluetooth keyboard.

timsamoff 2009-07-16 14:02

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
If you install PHP/MySQL on your tablet (which actually can be done), then you can install any variant of wiki solutions out there (they just need a web browser to run after all). Of course, this will take some work -- and syncing with your desktop may be a trick, unless you can somehow get the two databases to speak to each other.

Tim

mars 2009-07-16 16:53

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
MoinMoin, a python-based wiki works well on the tablets via a browser. MoinMoin currently stores your data in files so all that is required is python.

For tiddlywiki, I tried a GTD variant (getting things done) - GTD Monkey - and couldn't figure out a way to get rid of the security warnings when saving to disk, with the built-in browsers and some of the others I tried.

(Note that easydebian or something else that runs Firefox should work, because it lets you choose to have it remember your preference for letting the page save a modified version of itself back to disk).

talmage 2009-07-16 17:14

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Does ruby (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/ruby-maemo/) run on maemo these days? If so, try instiki (http://www.instiki.org).

mars 2009-07-16 19:08

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by talmage (Post 304944)
Does ruby (http://maemo.org/downloads/product/OS2008/ruby-maemo/) run on maemo these days? If so, try instiki (http://www.instiki.org).

instiki runs fine on maemo. I used the ruby packages from scottishclimbs for chinook. Ruby porting seems to have stalled for maemo, but these files still seem to work fine.

Instiki is a great wiki, and I can recommend it. I like how it makes it easy to set up multiple wikis and then select which wiki you want from the main http://localhost:2500 page. The maruku implementation of markdown should have enough syntax features for most people. Out of the box, instiki also makes it easy to download a zip of linked html pages of your wiki (as well as a zip of the source for individual pages).

However, I've become enamored with the feature completeness and syntax of restructured text, which is why I use moinmoin more -- although lately, I've been experimenting with sphinx (http://sphinx.pocoo.org) which builds really nice searchable static web pages (and pdf) from collections of restructured text files. Sphinx is used for the python documentation. I haven't tried Sphinx on the tablet, but building html files looks like it ought to work.

VulcanRidr 2009-07-17 16:30

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by rtrudel (Post 304895)
Have you tried tiddlywiki?

I believe I used didiwiki years ago, but when I searched for it, it didn't seem to be active any more. The homepage linked off of freshmeat was a sqatter landing page.

I tried tiddlywiki once, but I couldn't get my brain around it at the time (of course, that was my pre-wiki days). I may take another look at it and conboy.

Another of the items on my list would be markup similar to mediawiki. To explain, I would like to take wiki-like notes, and be able to transfer it to my mediawiki install at home. The problem is that at work, I have no access to anything. The NIT is standalone...But I would like to transfer my notes, etc to my wiki when I get home. So the less time I spend mucking with markup, the better.

--vr

mars 2009-07-17 18:55

Re: Desktop wiki for Maemo?
 
Quote:

Originally Posted by VulcanRidr (Post 305146)
Another of the items on my list would be markup similar to mediawiki.

For basic syntax, MoinMoin is compatible with wikitext. For a complete comparison, see: http://www.wikimatrix.org/compare/MediaWiki+MoinMoin

Things that are the same:
  • = Headings =
  • [[Links to other wiki pages]]
  • '''Bold'''
  • ''Italics''

Just don't try things like images, indenting paragraphs, or references where wikitext is different from MoinMoin. Bulleted lists are also somewhat different.


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