See my response there too. :)

These comments referring to comments are quite strange. Oh, and I don't have trackback working here because I'm running 4.3.2 and am waiting to update to 4.4 before I install it.

I agree completely, Tanya. After using a wiki for the AIfIA documentation I got convinced that it was the easiest way to keep track of project notes, so I ported all of my organization's project documentation to it, with hopes that everyone would maintain/update their own docs. I was previously responsible for maintaining all of our groups project documents, and we didn't use a publishing system for it. I toyed around with using a light publishing system, but found that if I evangelized and gave enough tutorials, people would see the benefit in keeping their own documents up to date. Two years later and the people in my organization using the StaffWiki use/update it more on a weekly basis than I do.

So I'm loving Wikis for project work. But what I'm struggling with now is how best to keep my notes for stuff that I'm exploring, learning about, and still forming ideas around. I tend to keep my papers/presentations organized in outlines -- noting the key points I want to make and filling in. So I'm wondering if the NetNewswire/OmniOutliner approach will work for my notetaking and for incubating the new ideas.

Thanks, Thomas. I'm going to try it out. Looks very simple to use and better integrated with my way of working: dashing off notes, dragging and dropping stuff into an app. I'm hoping this will work well with NetNewswire as well. Makes me want to consider having a PowerBook again, but I shudder at the thought of having to carry around my ThinkPad and a PowerBook. That's why I thought a wiki on a public server would be the best option initially.

Your frustration with having to organize your notes is exactly what I've been groaning about. The problem with my Drupal blog/weblink/notebook structure is that while some classification can be done at the point of entry, I often need to reorganize after the fact. The tools to do this are decent, but don't make for quick and easy shifting of nodes (blog entries/links) into piles. This is why I liked the idea of a wiki or OmniOutliner or something. This is making me think a little of hypercard. What I'm doing really, is what I do at my desk -- sorting stuff into temporary piles before I solidify my thoughts in a notebook. But the advantage of using a blog for this recording/organizing of thoughts is that it it becomes hidden and prevents my learning in a social context where people find and comment on what I've written. I've been thinking about writing about this and may do a longer blog entry related to this.