Thread: Does anyone here use a personal wiki?
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Old 03-31-2020, 07:03 PM   #15
j.p.s
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Originally Posted by MarjaE View Post
Thank you.

I want to be able to check the status of different chapters of my work, cross-reference it, more easily switch between sections, and select relevant chapters for export.

I think a Wiki might make things more manageable. The traditional document approach does not-- either I try to add my notes to one working document, 200 pages, and it's hard to find the relevant sections, or I scatter them among several documents, and it's hard to find relevant sections that way too. I realize the wiki approach is designed for collaboration, but it looks like it might be better for personal research too.

I can't find anything about footnotes, endnotes, or reflists in the Fossil markdown guides: http://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/t...ikitheory.wiki
Have you tried asciidoc? asciidoc is similar to markdown and can be processed into HTML,
PDF, or epub, and supports notes with backreferences. Even if your final form is not HTML, you can be continuously be editing your text, save it, process to HTML, refresh your browser and move around via search or link following. In the source text you can search on the note labels or back reference labels, so it is easy to find any note or reference.

The command asciidoc is a python script that produces HTML from asciidoc source text and a2x is a python script that produces PDF or epub from the same source text.

The command asciidoctor supports a super set of asciidoc syntax is in ruby.

I don't know whether this eliminates your need for a wiki of if the fossil wiki would integrate with a workflow including document source version managed in fossil.
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