For the past couple weeks I’ve been looking for a Windows program that will create a Wiki-like editing environment. I’ve gone to the trouble in the past of configuring a web server on my machine and using it to run a Wiki, but a) that’s more work than I really want to do, and b) I need this to run from multiple machines, which is *really* more work than I want to do going the web server route.
There are several products for Windows that accomplish this, including Note Studio ($50 shareware) and at Notebook (freeware).
My favorite, however, was wikidPad. It’s shareware, but the registration fee is only $12. Unlike either Note Studio or Notebook, wikidPad stores all files in plain text. I also thought its interface was much better than the other two programs.
The only caveat is that if you have a Palm OS PDA, you might find Note Studio worth a good hard look as it has a companion program for the PDA.