Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into two categories:
Multi-user applications with personal editions (such as MoinMoinorTWiki), installed for standalone use and inaccessible to outside users, which may require additional software such as a web server, database management system and/or WAMP/LAMP bundle[1]
Applications designed for single users, not dependent on a database engine or web server
Some personal wikis are public, but password-protected, and run on dedicated web servers or are hosted by third parties.
TWiki for Windows Personal and Certified TWiki (both written in Perl)
MediaWiki (powers Wikipedia and many other wikis, written in PHP)
DokuWiki on a Stick (written in PHP), which utilizes plain text files (and thus does not need a database like MediaWiki) and a syntax similar to MediaWiki
There are also wiki applications designed for personal use,[3] apps for mobile use,[4] and apps for use from USB flash drives.[5] They often include more features than traditional wikis, including:
Dynamic tree views of the wiki
Drag-and-drop support for images, text and video, mathematics
Use of OLE or Linkback to allow wikis to act as relational superstructures for multiple desktop-type documents
Multimedia embedding, with links to internal aspects of movies, soundtracks, notes and comments
Macros and macro scripting
Notable examples include:
ConnectedText, a discontinued commercial Windows-based personal wiki system that included full-text searches, a visual link tree, a customizable interface, image and file control, CSS-based page display, HTML and HTML Help exporting, and plug-ins[6]
Gnote, a port of Tomboy to C++ (although not all plug-ins have been ported)
MyInfo, a Windows-based free form personal information manager that includes wiki-style linking between notes, full-text search, different views of the note list, and web-site export
Obsidian, a knowledge base and note-taking software application that operates on Markdown files and features a graph-database-like view of connected notes as well as community-made plugins and themes
org-mode, an Emacs mode that can create documents that are interlinked, converted to HTML, and automatically uploaded to a web server
TiddlyWiki, a highly customizable personal wiki written in HTML and JavaScript;[7] it is provided as a single HTML file or multiple Node-js files, features many tools and plugins, and has been in active development since 2004 as free and open-source (BSD) software
Tomboy, a (LGPL) free software wiki-style note-taking program that allows easy organisation of any hierarchical data, hosted on GNOMECVS
Vim, which can be used as a personal wiki via plugins such as Vimwiki[8]
