WikidPad - wiki notebook for Windows (original) (raw)

wikidPad is open source. Visit the project homepage athttp://trac.wikidpad2.webfactional.com/.

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 typed into the editor. TodoList or JohnDoe are example WikiWords. The term wiki means "quick" in Hawaiian, and wikis are all about quickly linking your information together. Wikis are not a new concept, in fact there are many web based wiki servers available.

wikidPad is a real-time wiki
wikidPad is not a web server, or application server, or groupware solution. wikidPad is a standalone notepad like application, albeit notepad on steroids. wikidPad is like an IDE for your thoughts.

IDE for your thoughts Software developers have grown accustomed to certain features from their integrated development environment that make their jobs easier. Features like auto-completion, outline views, incremental search, easy source code navigation. IDE's that provide these features can greatly increase developer productivity. wikidPad attempts to utilize some of these features to address the problem of personal information management.

Personal Information Management
How do you manage all of the random bits of information in your personal and professional life? Word documents, text files, Microsoft Outlook folders/notes. If you're an expert user maybe you have a weblog, or a personal database, or possibly an outlining application. Where do you track your wifes favorite food, your bosses kids names, your personal todo list, the name of the movie you just read a review of, the name of the book a friend recommended. wikidPad was created to address this issue of personal information management. It provides a place to manage the massive amounts of information you have stuffed in your head, on stickies, or on your computer.

Help
A complete online documentation for beginners and advanced users is here: Help and First Steps (thanks to Jan Stegehuis)

To search all available documentation resources:Meta search

The included help wiki is also available in Hungarian language for version 2.1beta07 (thanks to T�r�k �rp�d).

Installation
Windows: Use of a binary installer is recommended. Users of Windows 98/ME should read the hint below before downloading.

Linux: See pageInstallLinux in WikidPad's wiki.

MacOS: See pageInstallMacosx in WikidPad's wiki.

Download
Multiple versions of WikidPad are available for download here.

Troubleshooting Tips

For users of WikidPad 2.0 or later with Windows binary
If WikidPad refuses to start, e.g. with message "CreateProcess failed; code 14001" try to download and install vcredist_x86.exe from Microsoft.

For users of Windows 98/ME
WikidPad 2.0 or later does not support these systems.
WikidPad version 1.6 and later needs a file named "unicows.dll" which must be placed either in the installation directory of the binary version of WikidPad (where "WikidPad.exe" is) or in the "\Windows\System" directory.
You can find the file eitherhere or download an installer for it fromMicrosoft.

You should also download the filemsvcp71.dll if you do not have it. It is not absolutely necessary, but allows to use an external HTML preview renderer (since 1.8beta6).

Important remark
Please install WikidPad only in a path which consists completely of ASCII-characters, this means only 'a' to 'z' letters, lower or upper case, digits and punctuation characters like underscore, dot and comma.

For some more tips see TroubleShooting

wikidPad is mentioned on mind-mapping.org.

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