After spending a little time yesterday trying to add links to my weblinks directory and then filing them under my Drupal book pages, I think it's time to start using a wiki. After using the IAWiki and an AIfIA wiki over the past few years, I decided about a year ago to get my organization using a wiki for our internal staff documentation. I've been finding it so much easier to do simple dashing off notes in a wiki, but I also find them pretty good for more complex documents such as for product requirements gathering, meeting notes, etc. I really like Drupal's book module -- it integrates so well with the other node types -- but, I find that it just requires too many steps to for me utilize it well. I found myself spending time creating book pages to organize my topics, then inputting a lot of metadata into the weblink or blog entries to make them findable in the index, then finally "administering"
each node to attach it to a book page. Way too many steps for me to work effectively.

I had seen a few posts on Drupal.org about wiki modules in the past year, but none of them seem to be producing a wiki module that allows you to use WikiWords or some similar method to produce new nodes. So I attempted to use the book module instead for my PKM. After attempting for a while to bring together a lot of loose ends in my KM notebook, I've decided to abandon it and go build it in a wiki. I'm going to be using PHP Wiki PmWiki. I don't think this means I'll be forgoing using my weblinks module (the thing that produces the "recent links" on my homepage), but I will be doing more organizing rather than stream of consciousness posting on the wiki. We'll see how this experiment goes.

P.S. A few people have suggested desktop wiki clients. I've tried both am very impressed by them as early version software. Perhaps the best feature offered by these desktop clients is Exporting.
* Mac: VoodooPad
* Windows: WikidPad