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Thu, 15 Apr 2004
Wiki as lab notebook?
Lisa Dusseault has been keeping at least a piece of her engineering notebook online on the OSAF wiki. This has turned out to be pretty useful to me in keeping up with what she's thinking about. I've been doing this on paper, and I started keeping bookmarks in del.icio.us. Today I decided that I was going to try a wiki notebook. I was really tempted to just do this here in the blog, but that would probably result in subjecting people to a spew of ill formed thoughts and random links, without sufficient context. I thought about asking for a blog off of blogs.osafoundation.org, but I decided to go the wiki route for now. We'll see how this works. Familiar facilities that I'll have to do with out (at least temporarily) are search (in the process of being fixed) and categorization -- what does that even mean on a Wiki. I've very mixed feelings about Wikis, so I'm not sure how long this will go before I get frustrated with it. This would be a perfect application for Chandler itself, if it were ready. Just one more motivation to work to get done so I can eat the dogfood. In the meantime, if you are interested in half baked ramblings....
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I've been using EmacsWiki as my private lab notebook and todo list manager for about 4 months now. I can always publish my pages to my company wiki if I want to share the notes and emacs runs pretty much anywhere. I used to use tinderbox but when my PowerBook needed to be sent to Apple for repairs, I was pretty hosed. So I wanted to switch to something I could run anywhere. EmacsWiki fits the bill.
Posted by Steve Giovannetti at Fri Apr 16 04:56:57 2004
Posted by Steve Giovannetti at Fri Apr 16 04:56:57 2004
I'm intrigued by the "what does categorization mean on a wiki" comment. Same as categorization anywhere?
The "original" c2 wiki supports categories by making pages corresponding to the category, and simply linking to that page to from another to mark the other as being in that category. The backlinks from the category page then gives you an index. Cliki provides a more explicit category notion, with a special kind of link which puts a page in the category indicated by the linked to page.
Posted by Hamish Harvey at Sat May 1 05:21:34 2004
The "original" c2 wiki supports categories by making pages corresponding to the category, and simply linking to that page to from another to mark the other as being in that category. The backlinks from the category page then gives you an index. Cliki provides a more explicit category notion, with a special kind of link which puts a page in the category indicated by the linked to page.
Posted by Hamish Harvey at Sat May 1 05:21:34 2004
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