I’ve been extending and improving my personal wiki for 1 year now and it has been one of the best things I’ve done. I found writing blog posts was too high friction and very often didn’t finish things because there is so much you can talk about in any given article. But a wiki is just a living document containing your notes and thoughts on things. I also use it as my public bookmark manager as I collect interesting to me links under each topic.
For my wiki, I render everything to the web first with GitBook. And I have a macro I run that automatically commits any changes I’ve made with Sublime Text on the mac and Ulysses on the phone so everything is super easy to edit and publish.
Does anyone else keep their own wiki here? Or you think a blog is enough for you?
Ultimately, I think that either way, having a solid search functionality becomes important regardless of which direction one chooses.
I really like Mike Caulfield’s Wikity theme. I reflected upon my experience here. I decided though to incorporate it into my ‘Collect’ site. My only point of confusion about the blog versus wiki is that Wikity is in fact built around ‘posts’ and WordPress.
Chris Aldrich posted about an interesting knowledge wiki using Github as the storage of the original content and using Gitbook to render the content. I have a federated wiki instance I have been using for some topics. Chris Aldrich also mentions that his own site serves as a commonplace book, capturing information that interests him. I think this variety of tools and practices is good to see. I have used a weblog in the work environment as a knowledge capture tool, then migrating some content to a wiki. My main observation is a common one: you get out of it what you put into it. If you don’t do much, any tool you use will not be very helpful. If you contribute content on a regular basis, the value will grow and grow over time. Which will you choose?
Replied to Of Digital Streams, Campfires and Gardens by Tom Critchlow (tomcritchlow.com)
I’ve got a handful of interesting things bookmarked here: https://boffosocko.com/tag/wikis/ which includes a rabbit hole of a request similar to your own.
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I built my own WikiLog engine. It’s my 3rd generation, I’ve carried forward all my pages since starting 17yrs ago….