[ANN] Pimki

[Assaph Mehr]

** About

Pimki is my modified Instiki[1], aimed at being a Personal Information
Manager. Current version is based in Instiki’s latest CVS (0.9.2).

There are some features added to Instiki, features that only make sense
when you view it as a personal application and not as a group oriented
application. Some Instiki features were suppressed. See below for a
full list.

Please feel free to try it to organize your thoughts, email me if you
have any problems (assaph at gmail). Get it at:

http://pimki.rubyforge.org/


** Installation

Download it from the RubyForge project page or go the gem way and
simply run:
gem install pimki

To enable the Mind Map feature, GraphViz[2] must be installed and the
bin directory on the system path.

Run it with the command 'pimki' or install it as a service (see home
page for details).
Features


** Features

Besides all the regular Instiki features, Pimki adds:

* Mind Map: a graph of wiki connections (made with GraphViz).
All graphs can be laid-out with the 4 GraphViz engines. Graph
contents can be arranged as:
o Page → linked pages
o Authors → pages
o Categories → pages
Requires that GraphViz be installed and on the PATH to be
enabled.
* Bliki: a blog integrated with the wiki. Blog entries are simply
wiki-pages in a special space. Can link from an entry to wiki
pages.
* Todo Items & List:
o ‘todo:’ items are highlighted on each page.
o Added a capacity to pull and list todo items from all
pages.
o On main list, items are highlighted according to date
(if there is one).
* Added capacity to (persistently Delete/Rename pages through
the ‘All Pages’ list.
* Added Left-Side Menu. Content options are:
o Only pages that reference other pages (default)
o All pages: by name
o All pages: recently revised
o All pages: recently visited
o All pages: most often visited
o User definable wiki-text
* Expanded Search:
o Search also tries to match the page names (not just
contents).
o Now showing part of sentence around match in search-results
page.
* Changed the nav-bar: added links to the Mind Map, Bliki and ToDo.
Moved less relevant links to the bottom of Home Page: RSS,
authors
and export.

Hope people find it useful.

Cheers,
Assaph

[1] www.instiki.org
[2] www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz

 

[Stoyan Zhekov]

** About

Pimki is my modified Instiki[1], aimed at being a Personal Information
Manager. Current version is based in Instiki's latest CVS (0.9.2).

Take a look on [ http://bgjap.net/code/ruby/gems/ ] 0.9.1-3.gem have
some improved features - no need from BlueCloth, RedCloth 3.0.0 can
handle Markdown; rollbacks give you an editbox to submit/cancel
changes; tests are in the separate directory. Maybe will help you for
pimki. Seems my gems will not be included soon in the rubygems.

 

[Chad Fowler]

Seems my gems will not be included soon in the rubygems.

I think we have crossed wires here. I'll send you and David a separate
mail and figure out what we need to do to get this gem up ASAP
(just want buy-in from him that it's good to go)

--

Chad Fowler
http://chadfowler.com
http://rubycentral.org
http://rubygarden.org
http://rubygems.rubyforge.org (over 20,000 gems served!)

 

[Assaph Mehr]

Hi!

Thanks for the links, I'll take a look at your mods later. Have you
submitted them to David HH for Instiki? He may be busy now, but they
might be integrated in the future.

As for markdown, I noticed that RedCloth 3.0.0 and 2.1.1 had somewhat
different results when I tested on an existing page. Didn't have time
to see what was the cause yet (quite possibly it's not redcloth's
fault), so I just went with the existing set-up of both Red- and Blue-
cloth.

Cheers,
Assaph

 

[Dick Davies]

** About

Pimki is my modified Instiki[1], aimed at being a Personal Information
Manager. Current version is based in Instiki?s latest CVS (0.9.2).

There are some features added to Instiki, features that only make sense
when you view it as a personal application and not as a group oriented
application. Some Instiki features were suppressed. See below for a
full list.

Please feel free to try it to organize your thoughts, email me if you
have any problems (assaph at gmail). Get it at:

http://pimki.rubyforge.org/


** Installation

Download it from the RubyForge project page or go the gem way and
simply run:
gem install pimki

Problem here on my Debian box:

planb:~# gem install pimki
Attempting local installation of 'pimki'
Local gem file not found: pimki*.gem
Attempting remote installation of 'pimki'
Updating Gem source index for: http://gems.rubyforge.org
Install required dependency RedCloth? [Yn]
Install required dependency BlueCloth? [Yn]
Install required dependency rubyzip? [Yn]
Install required dependency madeleine? [Yn]
ERROR: While executing gem ... (ArgumentError)
string contains null byte
planb:~# gem --version
0.8.1
planb:~# ruby -v
ruby 1.8.2 (2004-11-23) [i386-linux]
planb:~# uname -a
Linux xxx 2.6.9-1-686 #1 Tue Nov 16 17:52:21 JST 2004 i686 GNU/Linux

 

[Assaph Mehr]

Hi Dick,

There a few threads recently on ruby-gems and a ''null byte'' error. I
will check and see if there is anything I can do as far as Pimki is
concerned. There should be a bug fix (and minor enhancements) release
soon anyway.

Cheers,
Assaph

 

[Dick Davies]

Hi Dick,

There a few threads recently on ruby-gems and a ''null byte'' error. I
will check and see if there is anything I can do as far as Pimki is
concerned. There should be a bug fix (and minor enhancements) release
soon anyway.

Thanks, saw them - I'll try the patch.