WikidPad is an open source, Python-based wiki-like notebook for storing thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, and other notes with wiki-like linking between pages.
The WikidPad system uses a database to tie together individual text documents that the user creates into a wiki-like notepad. Wiki-links can be created by writing a word in CamelCase or enclosing a word or words with single brackets, allowing easy ways to create a mini-wiki on a certain subject easily. Single wiki pages and complete wikis can be exported to HTML.
Key Features
- WikiWord auto-completion.
- WikiWord navigation.
- On the fly WikiWord linking.
- Easy WikiWord navigation.
- Tree/Outline view.
- Dynamic views – performs attribute based searches and shows nodes that match those searches.
- To-do lists.
- Incremental search.
- Search and Replace.
- Wikis can be exported to HTML.
- Extensible with Python scripting.
- Can be used as portable software on a USB stick.
- Store notes in plain text or a SQLite database.
- Autosave – saves around 5-15 seconds of idle time, on navigation to a new wiki word, and on shutdown.
- Keybindings – many of which can be changed.
- Spell checking.
- Plugins:
- Graphviz – graph visualization software.
- MimeTex – Latex formula renderer.
- Ploticus – Charting and graphing software.
Website: wikidpad.sourceforge.net
Support: FAQ
Developer: Michael Butscher
License: Three-clause BSD
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