TiddlyWiki - Personal Wiki for all your information

So, you may be like me in that you have an overwhelming amount of information being kicked at you on a daily basis. Work stuff, emails, things you need to keep track of etc. If you've ever looked at WikiPedia and thought: Why can't I have that for my personal information, then this might just be the post you've been waiting for.

http://tiddlywiki.com/

Tiddly Wiki is just like WikiPedia but for all your personal information. Interlinking, notes, images, or as they refer to themselves 'A Non Linear Personal Notebook'. That about sums it up. The more you use it, the more useful it becomes. It's very much like evernote in that way. The big differences in my book between this and Evernote is that you aren't storing PDFs, images, or audio clips within this file. In fact, it's just a single web page. That makes it extremely portable, and flexible. the other difference is something called Transclusion. I think it's easiest to digest this way:

Every time you add a bit of information to your wiki, it goes into what's called a tiddler. Just think of that like a piece of information such as your email signature in your email client. That way, if I were writing another 'tiddler' I could call the text of that first one.

This is really handy for not having to re-write things like your address, or signature, or a footer, but it has another benefit which keeps me from adopting tools like evernote. Anywhere that piece of information is referenced will be updated, when I make changes to the source. It's very much like an include statement in JavaScript if you're familiar with that concept in coding.

So let me give you a practical example just to try and hit it home. Let's say I have to make reference to server specs because I represent a certain software package. I may make reference to those specs throughout my wiki, installs, RFP responses, whatever. When we go to update the software package from Oracle 10.2, to Oracle 11, I don't have to change EVERY WHERE I've ever mentioned that in the wiki, just the original tiddler that everything else is referencing.

Pretty sweet. It has lots of other tricks, like tags, searches, filters and you can even add fields. Awesome stuff. Check it out.

~Brian (The Kludgy Reviewer)