Personal wiki

A personal wiki is a wiki maintained primarily for personal use. Personal wikis allow people to organize information on their desktop or mobile computing devices in a manner similar to community wikis, but without the need for collaboration by multiple users.

Personal wiki software can be broadly divided into multi-user wiki software with personal editions, and those wiki applications that are designed only for single users, not depending on a database engine and a web server.

Some personal wikis are public but password-protected, running either on their own webservers or hosted by third parties. This has the advantage that the personal space can be accessed and edited from any computer or PDA with a web browser.

Diagram

Types of Personal Wiki		Openness
		Public	Private
Basis for organization	Content	Public personal wiki	Private personal wiki
	Chronology	Public bliki	Private bliki (i.e., journal)

See also

• Commonplace book
• Personal information manager
• Personal knowledge base
• Personal knowledge management