Introducing Trixwiki

I’m happy to release Trixwiki to the world.

What is Trixwiki? It’s a personal wiki intended to be used on your local computer rather than on a web server. The name reflects the fact that it’s built around Basecamp’s Trix WYSIWYG editor.

In addition to the formatting built into Trix, there is also support for Mathjax and wiki-style links. Math can be inserted using the standard syntax: single dollar signs for inline equations and double dollar signs for displayed equations. To link to other pages in the wiki, use this syntax:

[wiki:foo The foo page]

The above will be changed to a link to foo.html, with the description “The foo page”. If there’s no description

[wiki:foo]

It’s changed into a link to foo.html with the description “foo”. For all the wikis in the wild, this one has some unique features. I’m generally not a WYSIWYG type. I nonetheless like the style and feel of Trix, and really like that I’m writing html directly, so there’s no need to mess with conversion from markdown to html.