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A personal wiki that I wrote in 2004 (my first web app ever). It's one step above text files, and purposely no more than that. Hyperlinking and availability o
by chubot 8y ago
A personal wiki that I wrote in 2004 (my first web app ever).
It's one step above text files, and purposely no more than that. Hyperlinking and availability on different devices is important to me.
It started as something like this (which amazingly is still online) http://infomesh.net/pwyky/ http://infomesh.net/pwyky/
After 14 years, I have 3017 wiki pages of notes, and still use it every day!
- exodust 8y agoThis is a good strategy. To write your own thing, and not rely on Google and others, who insist that you log in and remain online just to write a simple note.
- chubot 8y agoYes, I often think of how many note taking and bookmarking services have come and gone in the last 14 years :) By sticking to a simple wiki that uses plain text, HTML, and HTTP, you avoid a lot of churn, and can concentrate on the real goal, which is organizing and retaining knowledge. It started as a CGI script, migrated to a server I can no longer recall, then to my own web server (an experiment), and is now a WSGI app in Python running on gunicorn, behind Nginx. It also started using flat files like pwyky, but now it uses sqlite. All the data was undisturbed throughout those technology changes, which is the important part.