Someone complemented me the other day that I’m pretty organized. I’m going to be sharing what I use to keep organized in upcoming blogposts.
For one, I use something called Zim. It’s a desktop wiki program.
A wiki is a user-editable, interlinked set of information, like Wikipedia, or the Portland Pattern Repository, the first and original wiki.
While there are a bunch of free wiki packages, they mostly require a webserver. Zim, by contrast, runs on your computer like a normal program.
The reason it’s handier than web-based wikis is:
- You don’t have to install a bunch of stuff
- Your files are immediately available to you (it doesn’t require a database)
- You don’t have to press “Edit” to start writing. You just click whereever you want and start typing.
- To make a new page, you just right click an existing page and select “New Sub Page”
Here’s just a few of the features:
- As stated above, to take notes, you just start typing. When you have enough that it needs to be more organized, just press Ctrl + a number from 1 to 5 to make the current line into a heading from level 1 to 5.
- You can make text bold, italic, underlined, and preformatted, as well.
- Once you have more text than comfortably fits on a page, just create a new page (Ctrl+N). You can drag and drop your pages to form a hierarchy.
- An clickable index of pages is displayed on the left side of the Zim window. All of the notes you see at one time make up a “notebook“. You can create multiple notebooks.
- You can search your notebooks, and there’s a task list feature as well (a subject for a future blog post).
- Zim saves your notes in plain wiki markup format. You can take the content of your notes files and paste them into a web-based wiki, depending upon the syntax your wiki uses. DokuWiki, for one, is mostly compatible with Zim.
Zim is a work in progress, so keep backups and don’t have your own source of information be your Zim notes. That said, Zim’s a really handy method of organization a lot of information.
Installing Zim
Install Zim on Ubuntu/Linux
Zim is available in the Ubuntu software repositories (make sure they’re all enabled). You can install Zim from the Software Center or click here from Firefox to install it. Otherwise enter the following from a terminal:
sudo apt-get install zim
Install Zim on Windows
A version of Zim for Windows is available here.
The automated installer is at version 0.28. A more current version (0.42) is avaible, but you have to install requirements yourself.
Install Zim on Apple Mac OS/X
First, install Darwin Ports for OS/X.
Then type this in a Terminal to install Zim:
% cd /opt/local/bin/portslocation/dports/zim % sudo port install zim
More information on the Mac port of Zim is here.
Currently it’s at version 0.28.
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