Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into two categories:
Multi-user applications with personal editions (such as
MoinMoin or
TWiki), installed for standalone use and inaccessible to outside users, which may require additional software such as a
web server,
database management system and/or
WAMP/
LAMP bundle[1]
Applications designed for single users, not dependent on a database engine or web server
Some personal wikis are public, but password-protected, and run on dedicated web servers or are
hosted by third parties.
Multi-user wiki software
Multi-user wiki applications with personal editions include:
TWiki for Windows Personal and Certified TWiki (both written in
Perl)
MediaWiki (powers Wikipedia and many other wikis, written in
PHP)
DokuWiki on a Stick (written in PHP), which utilizes plain text files (and thus does not need a database like MediaWiki) and a syntax similar to MediaWiki
Single-user wiki software
There are also wiki applications designed for personal use,[3] apps for mobile use,[4] and apps for use from
USB flash drives.[5] They often include more features than traditional wikis, including:
Dynamic tree views of the wiki
Drag-and-drop support for images, text and video, mathematics
Use of
OLE or Linkback to allow wikis to act as relational superstructures for multiple desktop-type documents
Multimedia embedding, with links to internal aspects of movies, soundtracks, notes and comments
Macros and macro scripting
Notable examples include:
ConnectedText, a discontinued
commercial Windows-based personal wiki system that included full-text searches, a visual link tree, a customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, HTML and HTML Help exporting, and plug-ins[6]
Gnote, a port of
Tomboy to C++ (although not all plug-ins have been ported)
MyInfo, a Windows-based free form personal information manager that includes wiki-style linking between notes, full-text search, different views of the note list, and web-site export
Obsidian, a knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files and features a
graph-database-like view of connected notes as well as community-made plugins and themes
org-mode, an
Emacs mode that can create documents that are interlinked, converted to HTML, and automatically uploaded to a web server
TiddlyWiki, a highly customizable personal wiki written in HTML and
JavaScript;[7] it is provided as a single HTML file or multiple Node-js files, features many tools and plugins, and has been in active development since 2004 as
free and
open-source (
BSD) software
Tomboy, a (
LGPL)
free software wiki-style note-taking program that allows easy organisation of any hierarchical data, hosted on
GNOMECVS
Vim, which can be used as a personal wiki via plugins such as Vimwiki[8]