Felix Smith wrote:
Phlip wrote:
I’m aware you are a sock puppet here, but what conceivable difference
between this system and a Wiki could you possibly advertise?Sorry about mis-posting. Cutting and pasting this from the site’s
“feature list”:
Feel free to request an apology if you are not in fact a puppet of the sock
category. Remote collaboration is entirely on-topic here.
http://www.xpsd.com/MiniRubyWiki
So let’s compare this feature list to my MiniRubyWiki project (sock puppet
that I am). MRW at my shop competes in the “remote collaboration” space.
-Global search function for searching all sheets at once
MRW enables normal and Regexp searches, and it lets you save “named”
searches as RemoteLinks. The SearchPage is itself a RemoteLink.
-Archiving with a date/time-stamp for each entry
MRW (rudimentarily) highlights any date (but not time) in dd-Mmm-yyyy or
mm-dd-yy format with a grey background. Then any dates within the current 2
weeks display in the calendar panel on the NerveCenter page.
Further date manipulations are possible via (ahem) regexp searches.
-Backup your information to your hard drive
I guess one could suck MRW using ‘wget’, but that’d be HTML only. One could
also remote share the data drive.
-Collaborate by “sharing” notepad and calendar sheets with others in
read-only or read/write mode
Nope. Read-write only. MRW only contains opinions.
-Create easy-to-remember custom Web addresses like
www.onlinehb.com/mygrocerylist/ for shared sheets
RemoteLinks, written like this…
GoOgle:
…with a trailing colon followed by nothing, form stand-alone links out to
pages anywhere on the net.
-Protect sheets using encryption
Nope.
-Easily notify others when sheet has changed
RecentChanges - the core of Wiki-dom.
-Choose your favorite color for the user interface
MRW did not leap upon the CSS bandwagon like all other second-tier Wikis.
MRW therefor lets you use your Web browser itself to set your favorite font
and color.
And the WikiStyleSheet lets you add project-specific markup, such as making
the word TODO always appear big on a red background.
-Create email reminders in a heartbeat using free-form approach
Sounds like a good idea.
-Receive reminders on your cell phone
Ouch. Phones don’t exist in my world. They are last-millenium.
-Repeat reminders (hourly, daily, yearly, every x hours, days, weeks,
months, years)
MS Office can do that.
-Create one-word group handles for frequently used lists of multiple
email addresses
Searching for that word (if it’s really distinctive) would appear to do
this.
But I need to permit “AND search terms across a page”, and “search entire
page”. Options. Right now the search feature only returns the first hit.
-4 different layout options for sheets
The joy of Wikis is that every sheet has a different layout. 
Well, you’ve been a good sport, and I hope you can compete with TUTOS
better than with my Wiki.
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