Wikipad -- Notepad with Wiki Features for Organization
Posted on Monday, June 05, 2006 at 9:08 PM by Randall
Simple editors like Windows Notepad are great for jotting down ideas and storing them in files. However, it is easy to lose try of all those note files and how they relate to each other. A Wiki is an online application that lets people create a linked set of web pages easily. Some time ago, Jason Horman came up with the idea of writing a notepad-like application with the features of a Wiki. He made the program open source in mid-2005 and Michael Butscher took over as the main developer in 2005.
Don't let the name confuse you. Wikipad is a single user program you run on your computer, not a script ran on a web server for a group of people to use.
Here's how the designers describe this application: "WikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. What makes WikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information. Links in a wiki are created by typing in WikiWords. A WikiWord is any mixed case word (also called CamelCase) typed into the editor. TodoList or JohnDoe are example WikiWords."
Some of Wikipad's features:
* On the fly WikiWord linking, as you type
* WikiWord auto-completion
* Easy WikiWord navigation
* Wiki text styling
* WikiWord History
* Wiki document attributes
* Dynamic views
* Tree/Outline view with over 100 icons
* Todo lists
* Incremental search
* Search and Replace
* Autosave
* Export to HTML
* All your data is stored in plain text
* URL and file linking
* Intuitive keybindings
* Help Wiki included
Rating: 4.0
Operating System: Windows
License:
Open Source
Price: Free
Web Site: http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/