Archive of September 2009
2009.09.10
Book Writing and Tiddler Wiki
As I said a couple of months back, I'm hoping to continue on with my Isaac Asimov work and publish an actual book about Isaac Asimov. Over these past few months, I've been searching for some way to organize all of my thoughts, ideas, research, notes, to do lists, progress reports to myself, etc. All of my previous stuff was done with notepad and folders to separate relevant information.
This quickly became ugly.
However, I notice my fiancé using Tiddler Wiki the other day. While I'm pretty sure I futtsed with his personal wiki, I remembered that he had also set one up for me nearly half a year ago. Before my old computer decided to die in an epic fashion. I had presumed that it was lost to me, and I'd have to reconfigure a new one. But then, I discovered it sitting in my dropbox folder, abandoned and figuratively dusty. I opened it, and started setting it up to act as a portal of information for writing this book.
And it is amazing. It's powerful, it's got everything I want. I can break things down, move them around, rename them, throw in lists, etc. And the best thing is, it's all in one place. The only hard part is moving everything over from .txt's to Tiddler. The hard part is worth the benefits.