a FREE TOOL and how to make it work on your mac

[nadinbrzezinski]

Edited on Sat Dec-20-08 06:57 AM by nadinbrzezinski
Well one of my fav tools is tiddlywiki, which is a reusable notebook, and a portable wiki.

What is a wiki? A cross referenced notebook. If you have visited wikipedia, you've used a wiki

Now for those of you who are very technically adept you can download media wiki, and set your own wikipedia on your hardrive... which is quite the pain in the rear... trust me... been there, done that... not pretty. So if you don't want to undergo that pain... and have all your research on a portable means of transport... here is a perfect solution

Tiddlywiki is a fully portable wiki that you can transport on your thumbdrive... and use in any computer.. well almost

http://www.tiddlywiki.com/

As a proud owner of a MAC... I KNOW it will not run on Safari... nor Camino, have not tried opera, but it does behave under Firefox (get the latest version... word to the wise... for many reasons)

It also runs on my Xandros based EEEPC 900 (word to the wise, LINUX version), but only after I updated Firefox... now that is another post, another day...

Now I know that at one time it behaved on Internet Explorer for those of you still living in a windows world... and I guess will have to see if it works on a windows machine one of these days....aka test it on the gaming machine... with the latest bells and whistles including vista and IE... ughh.

What do I use this for? SNOWFLAKE method, and I know, I also like KEYNOTE for that, but keynote does have issues under virtualization in the MAC (though it behaves like a charm under WINE 1.0 in the Linux box)

So decided to give this another whirl... and between transfering info and writing... it is perfect to get your novel data all in one file... heck, I may even leave the electronics at home and just take thumb drive when I go visiting the family... nah... or there is going to be a race for computer

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/TiddlyWiki/Writing

YES I can do headings... and bold and all that





And yes, there are some set specifically for fiction...