Portable wiki using Instiki
Previously, I wrote about Portable Wiki using Veryquickwiki.
At that point in time (some six months ago), it was a way of testing the wiki waters. However, there are few different things that bugged me.
- The wiki markup language was quite limited, and did not have the features that a more mature product has.
- No updates in close to a year
- Ok for technical users, but needed more polish for other users
I have found something better … Instiki
Instiki is built using the Ruby on Rails Web Framework. The main author of Ruby on Rails has an article on his website “Using Instiki as your personal notebook“. Which is what I was using VeryQuickWiki for.
For all intents and purposes of moving a wiki between work and home, Ruby has proven just as portable as the Java Very Quick Wiki but with a little more polish.
From the instiki website, there are two steps to install ..
- Download Instiki
- Run Instiki
Quite a simple process .. and it just works.