Just picking up on this one point—I’ve used a bunch of personal wikis in the past; they just haven’t stuck for me. Roam has some nice features around this, like backlinking (so just by idly putting something in [[brackets]] you’re starting to collate a list of pages under that term) and searching through text to find ‘missing links’, neither of which I’ve seen in wikis.
That just means you’ve not seen that many wikis. ;-) For example, the ConnectedText personal wiki software includes backlinks, date-specific pages, and graph visualization of link structures, much like Roam. It also has the ability to include pages in others, and some of Roam’s other features could likely be emulated using CT’s scripting and templating systems, though it’d be a pain.
I actually own a copy of an older version of CT but stopped using it many years ago because it’s not terribly interoperable with anything else.
Just picking up on this one point—I’ve used a bunch of personal wikis in the past; they just haven’t stuck for me. Roam has some nice features around this, like backlinking (so just by idly putting something in [[brackets]] you’re starting to collate a list of pages under that term) and searching through text to find ‘missing links’, neither of which I’ve seen in wikis.
That just means you’ve not seen that many wikis. ;-) For example, the ConnectedText personal wiki software includes backlinks, date-specific pages, and graph visualization of link structures, much like Roam. It also has the ability to include pages in others, and some of Roam’s other features could likely be emulated using CT’s scripting and templating systems, though it’d be a pain.
I actually own a copy of an older version of CT but stopped using it many years ago because it’s not terribly interoperable with anything else.
PmWiki has these features.