It’s 2018, and I’ve still not found anything that helps me think as clearly as federated wiki. At the same time, running a web server of your own is still, in 2018, a royal pain. But such is life.
So I recently started looking at whether I could do federated wiki just on my laptop and not deal with a remote server. It doesn’t get me into the federation, per se, but it allows all the other benefits of federated wiki — drag-and-drop refactoring, quick idea linking, iterative note-taking, true hypertext thinking.
It turns out to be really easy (I mean as things go with this stuff). I’ll go into detail more below, but here are the steps:
- Download Node.js for Windows. Install. - Open a command window and type: npm install -g wiki - Launch via command window: wiki -p 80 –security_type friends –cookieSecret ‘SECRET’ - Navigate to localhost in a browser - Click the lock to “claim” the wiki as owner - Click the “wiki” link to take it out of read-only mode. - Go forth and wiki…..