Ask HN: What wiki software do you use?

by aprao on 9/29/2022, 3:22:25 AM with 7 comments
Coda and Confluence are very heavy weight and slow. Also, it's a pain to create pages when you need to tab back and forth to copy text and pictures. Any other solutions in the market that do a better job?

  • by 0x54MUR41 on 9/29/2022, 4:52:13 PM

    I have never used wiki software before. But, some HN users recommend to use Zim [0]. They shared their experience with Zim on this thread [1]. One of the example is here [2]. Hopefully, it can be a reference for you.

    > Confluence are very heavy weight and slow. Also, it's a pain to create pages when you need to tab back and forth to copy text and pictures.

    I can confirm that since I use Confluence at work.

    [0]: https://zim-wiki.org

    [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30088933

    [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30089544

  • by mikewarot on 9/29/2022, 5:35:22 AM

    I use WikidPad for my notes... it was cross-platform until something broke in Python or wxPython, and now it doesn't work under Linux any more... I had to switch back to Windows 10 because of that.

  • by leed25d on 9/29/2022, 3:49:22 AM

    I don't know if it is a wiki proper, it's more of a note-taking app I suppose.

    I use Joplin. It can be encrypted end-to-end, and it can sync with my for shopping lists and what have you.

  • by yosito on 9/29/2022, 5:03:00 AM

    I use Obsidian to keep wikis in Markdown format. I can also edit the wikis in any other editor I choose since they're plain text files on my file system.

  • by jeffmc on 9/29/2022, 4:11:13 AM

    I build and use my own - RAMADDA - https://ramadda.org

  • by ananiochita on 9/29/2022, 4:56:43 AM

    https://tiddlywiki.com

  • by oxff on 10/1/2022, 2:45:32 PM

    Personal: Obsidian

    Public / when I want to share: make something in Notion