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It is sad that the best editors that come native with wikis are in non-opensource products. eg. Jotspot (which has just been bought by Google), Seedwiki and Wikispaces for instance. It’s to do with markup language.
Mediawiki is probably the premiere OS wiki. There are several efforts to get a wysiwyg editor to work with it. One is wikiwyg. Requires a specific script (greasemonkey) which at the moment I cannot get to work. There are also some notes on the Mediawiki support wiki about the issues around editors. I guess the developers of Mediawiki just don’t want to develop and maintain an editor. I hope something emerges where we can plug in an editor without complexity. I guess I am aware of the main problem: tables and images. I’d be interested in hearing from anyone with a solution going.
Evernote
“EverNote Corporation’s mission is to give users the ability to instantly create, organize and find any notes or content – and to make this information accessible at any time, in any place.
Built on a new metaphor for note management, our flagship product, EverNote 1.1, provides a single place where users can easily record, categorize and instantly find any type of content, including Web clips, images, emails, text and handwritten notes.”
This had got categories. ie you can tag files . . .
EditPadLite The free version.
There is a professional version: “EditPad Pro is a powerful and versatile text editor or word processor. Designed to make text editing as convenient as possible, using EditPad Pro to edit text files will save you a lot of time and frustration”
I’m trying this at the moment, and may buy it. It has bookmarks, lots of text windows and a spell checker.
These, I nearly had forgotten about. Glen revamped IT712 into a webquest format in 2003 and it has proved a big hit.
Webquest links:
WebQuests (Bernie Dodge’s website)
“This site is designed to serve as a resource to those who are using the WebQuest model to teach with the web. By pointing to excellent examples and collecting materials developed to communicate the idea, all of us experimenting with WebQuests will be able to learn from each other.”
http://webquest.sdsu.edu
Australian WebQuests
A bunch of web quests. The home link does not work. 
http://www.occ.act.edu.au/home/itpd/webquests/matrix.htm
Blue Web’n (New address as of April 14th 2006)
www.kn.att.com/ (Home)
http://www.kn.att.com/wired/wired.html (Webquest)
In my search to find a good tagging utility to work on my HDD files (something like comes built in with the Mac) I came across this is a cool, lightning fast HDD search utility: Copernic Desktop Search (CDS) version 1.6 I have yet to decide if there is overhead from using this, there doesn’t seem to be, so far. Sub second searching for words in a file. ex January 2006 I have written to Copernic. Yet to hear back. This utility couod be a world beater with tagging. Six files to do with project X, from all over your hard drive could be tagged. One file could have several tags. Delicious for your hard drive maybe? Who will be the first to do this I wnder.
Been too busy to go online. Lots of interesting people to meet. Terry Stewart (Massey) -very interesting scenario creator.
http://www.diagnosis.co.nz/
September 20th, 2005 | Category: Cool Tools |
E-mail address manager. Update things over the web to keep contacts current. http://www.plaxo.com/ Carol Cooper is using it. Looks really cool.
Clusty, which aspires to group searches by topic.
Try this to see what it says on tagging:
http://clusty.com/search?query=tagging
cMap: Mind Mapping
Free for non-profit use
(plus Learning management system called Leo)
From the site: “The CmapTools program empowers users to construct, navigate, share and criticize knowledge models represented as concept maps. It allows users to, among many other features, construct their Cmaps in their personal computer, share them on servers (CmapServers) anywhere on the Internet, link their Cmaps to other Cmaps on servers, automatically create web pages of their concept maps on servers, edit their maps synchronously (at the same time) with other users on the Internet, and search the web for information relevant to a concept map.”
Tinderbox: (Personal) Knowledge management and moreOnly for Mac’s, but will be out for the PC sometime.
Commercal product.
Met a bunch of people at Blogtalk Downunder who used this all the time. (Plus we also met Mark Bernstein who wrote the product)
From the Tinderbox site:
“Tinderbox is a personal content management assistant. It stores your notes, ideas, and plans. It can help you organize and understand them. And Tinderbox helps you share ideas through Web journals and web logs.”
Audacity: open source sound editor/recorder
From the site: ‘Audacity is free, open source software for recording and editing sounds. It is available for Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, GNU/Linux, and other operating systems’
Picasa: image management
Free – from Google
The program you have been waiting for if you run a PC and do not have iPhoto. Superb!!
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