Then there is Smallest Federated Wiki: https://www.wired.com/2012/07/wiki-inventor/
I like this quote in particular: “If people don’t control their own infrastructure, they get needy,” he says. They’re at the mercy of service providers who can disappear, impose rules that constrain creativity and/or make it difficult to backup content that you’ve created. “It’s good to simplify things, but they shouldn’t be simplified in such a way as to make the user helpless.” On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:10 PM, John Sechrest <[email protected]> wrote: > So a shared wiki does this. > As does Evernote or OneNote or google Keep.... And each of them have > benefits and limitations. > > So the vast number of tools that try to replace scraps of paper is an > amazing collection, and yet we still keep trying to get it more > organized/better etc. There are whole conferences about this very issue of > collaborative information management. > > Some people use Trello to track project data. Some people use github wikis. > Some use shared google docs. There are huge collaborative, management tools > with lots and lots of bells and whistles, which are also often complex and > brittle. > > And there are very very very simple wiki-like things like > https://tiddlywiki.com/ tiddlywiki. > As people have been asking, you need to know who is writing, who is > reading, and what the constraints on that conversation are trying to make > progress on. > > I find it much harder to get people to use a common tool than I do to set > up a tool. so this seems like a sociological problem instead of a software > selection problem. > > > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 1:03 PM Russell Senior <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > The specific thing I had in mind was writing stuff down on little scraps > of > > paper. > > > > On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 6:15 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > > wrote: > > > > > On 09/15/2018 07:28 AM, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > >> Yes. > > >> > > > > > > OK ;/ What might it be? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >> On Sat, Sep 15, 2018 at 3:53 AM, Richard Owlett <[email protected]> > > >> wrote: > > >> > > >> There are multiple carriers of information on the internet. > > >>> Mailing lists and USENET groups stress timeliness. > > >>> Wikis by nature can be more in-depth but can suffer from edits from > > edits > > >>> by anyone independent of qualifications. > > >>> > > >>> I repeat my question. Is there an alternative to wikis. > > >>> The question is explicitly community and/or topic agnostic. > > >>> > > >>> > > > _______________________________________________ > > > PLUG mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > > -- > John Sechrest . Need to schedule a meeting : > http://sechrest.youcanbookme.com > . > . > . > > . > [email protected] > . > @sechrest <http://www.twitter.com/sechrest> > > . > http://www.oomaat.com > . > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
