If you are looking for a portable wiki that you can easily carry around on USB stick, look no further than Tiddly BackPack. The entire wiki software is contained inside a single HTML file and requires no installation - just download the file, open it in any web browser and start creating your wiki pages.
All edits made to the wiki are automatically saved in the same local HTML file that you can be easily moved across computer or you can send the full wiki to someone else via email. There are no databases or external files to worry about.
Video tour of Portable Wiki
When you run the portable Wiki for the first time, the browser will show a security warning - just remember to grant permission for local access and you are good to go.
You may use Tiddly BackPack wiki for creating notes, managing TODO lists and even for GTD. I guess the wiki should also work on mobile phone browsers. It requires no tech knowledge but if you know some CSS, you can even customize the layout of the wiki.
Also see: Turn Your USB Stick into a Personal Computer
Find this article at: http://www.labnol.org/software/portable-wiki-software-on-usb/6062/
web: http://www.labnol.org/ email: amit@labnol.org
Reader Comments
Hello Amit,
For some odd reason I can seem to get this to work.
When I click on the tiddlybackpack.html I get a message that IE has restricted the webpage from running scripts or ActiveX controls that could access my computer; I allow blocked content and create page within the wiki but I am not able to add a note or code or am I able to even save the pages I created, could you please assist?
Does this work only FF as shown in the demo?
Thanks in advance.
Richard
Written by Richard Liriano on 12.16.08
How does TiddlyBackpack compare with the default TiddlyWiki tiddlywiki.com ?
These features make wikis even more flexible and therefore reliable, check out the ccTiddly project for some new ways to integrate and synchronize a tiddly wiki with a web server =)
Written by Mike Chelen on 12.16.08
@Richard - Make sure you save the file to some local folder before creating or editing pages. I used FF 3.1 and it worked just fine.
@Mike - I think the default TiddlyWiki is more feature-rich in the sense it support plugins but this looks more simple and beautiful.
Written by Amit on 12.16.08
Amit,
Thanks for the reply, its still not working for me on IE7, I will test on FF shortly.
Thanks.
Richard
Written by Richard Liriano on 12.16.08
Over at Lifehacker, this was discussed. It appears that it does not work in many browsers (including Safari and Opera, and Firefox under Linux) and that it requires an active Internet connection to access googlecode.com.
If this truly does not require an Internet connection, perhaps the code needs to be changed or a zip file created with everything required?
And why are other browsers having problems with this?
Written by David on 12.16.08
There is many of this kind (portable wikis)
I myself prefer “Wiki On A Stick” and find it more feature-rich
I like to have formatting and pictures and stuff like that
Written by bollonet boll on 12.18.08
TiddlyWiki itself runs fine on every modern browser across Windows Linux and Mac, and works great from a USB stick. The customised version TiddlyBackpack discussed here is a bit pickier about the browsers it likes. Richard, if it’s a pain getting TiddlyBackpack to work, try regular TiddlyWiki.
Written by Daniel Baird on 12.19.08
Have anyone tried Dokuwiki? They have a portable version where you can put on your USB drive.
Written by dan Elix on 01.13.09
I use wiki on a stick (WOAS). Works great, but it looks better in firefox than in internet explorer.
Written by zyxo on 02.08.09