Whilst I’m thinking about all these different topics that I’m interested in, can anyone help? I’m in the market for a new desktop note-taking tool. It must start up in <3 seconds and save each note as a standalone text file, using some form of text-based notation (like wiki, textile or markdown). If that didn’t eliminate en...

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Lighthouse is “beautifully simple issue tracking” (a hosted bugtracker to you and me). It looks great and is pretty much a joy to use. At work we use Trac. Trac is a locally-installed bugtracker (plus wiki and source browser). It looks like a nightmare and there are parts which make the baby Jesus cry

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I use a different note-taking tool for almost every conference I attend. I try and use ones which have both off- and on-line components for allowing me to write if ther...

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Because it’s on the web so I never go there to actually look for stuff, and it’s not built into my normal search Where’s the “search my shit” button that searches delicious and twitter and flickr and my wiki and my IM conversations for that one link I added or sent three months ago? Practically, the reason Tomboy is so useful is because it’s so local. Local to my PC and local to m...

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Loads of people in my office have a Wii. Being British, this is a terribly amusing state of affairs. I was considering setting up a space on our work wiki where we could jot down our friend codes, games we’ve got, would recommend, release schedules, etc. (or just link to external resources – the world always needs another clearing-house, rig...

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Loads of people in my office have a Wii. Being British, this is a terribly amusing state of affairs. I was considering setting up a space on our work wiki where we could jot down our friend codes, games we’ve got, would recommend, release schedules, etc. (or just link to external resources – the world always needs another clearing-house, rig...

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There is little wiki syntax interoperability. In fact, it’s so bad that there are dedicated libraries for converting between almost every wiki system, the best probably being a Perl l...

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There is little wiki syntax interoperability. In fact, it’s so bad that there are dedicated libraries for converting between almost every wiki system, the best probably being a Perl l...

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