What is Pimki?

Pimki is a Personal Information Manager based on Instiki’s Wiki technology.

It has some added features over Instiki, while keeping (most of) the simplicity of Instiki. Add added complication is installing GraphViz on the path. GraphViz is available from: www.research.att.com/sw/tools/graphviz.

Instiki Features:

  • Regular expression search: Find deep stuff really fast

  • Revisions: Follow the changes on every page from birth. Rollback to an earlier rev

  • Export to HTML or markup in a zip: Take the entire wiki with you home or for reference

  • RSS feeds to track recently revised pages

  • Multiple webs: Create separate wikis with their own namespace

  • Password-protected webs: Keep it private

  • Authors: Each revision is associated with an author, so you can see who changed what

  • Reference tracker: Which other pages are pointing to the current?

  • Speed: Using Madelein for persistence (all pages are in memory)

  • Three markup choices: Textile (default / RedCloth), Markdown (BlueCloth), and RDoc

  • Embedded webserver: Through WEBrick

  • Internationalization: Wiki words in any latin, greek, cyrillian, or armenian characters

  • Color diffs: Track changes through revisions

Pimki added features:

  • 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:

    * Page -> linked pages
* Authors -> pages
* Categories -> pages

  • 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 via PageName or [[page name]] and from pages to Bliki entries via [bliki[page name]].

  • c2 Wiki links, via [c2]. If you run multiple webs within Pimki, you can now link between them using [web_address].

  • Todo Items & List:

    * 'todo:' items are highlighted on each page.
* Added a capacity to pull and list todo items from all pages.
* 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.

  • Lots of web customization and administration options through the edit_web template.

  • Added left-side menu. Content options are:

    * Only pages that reference other pages (default)
* Only pages that belong to a specific category
* All pages: by name
* All pages: recently revised
* All pages: recently visited
* All pages: most often visited
* User definable wiki-text

  • Added Glossary function: shows all acronyms defined in the web

  • Expanded Search:

    * Search also tries to match the page names (not just contents).
* Now showing part of sentance around match in search-results page

  • Advanced Search

    * Case sensitivity
* Search as regex, phrase or words
* Search pages and bliki entries
* Search in page names / contents
* Limit search to selected categories
* Limit search to selected authors

  • Removed unnecessary (for me) stuff from the nav-bar: RSS, authors, export. Moved to bottom of Home Page.

  • Minor stylesheet tweaks.

Command-line options: Run “ruby pimki.rb –help”

History:

1.8.092 Bug Fixes & New features

- Many small & not-so-small bug fixes
- Still based on Instiki 0.9.2 for storage compatibility

1.7.092 Bug Fixes & New features

- Better control on multiple webs, including web administration and links between webs via [web_address[PageName]]
- Added Glossary function: shows all acronyms defined in the web
- Better export in anticipation of Pimki2
- Moved things back to the nav-bar
- Even more and better things at the web setup (edit_web) template
- Lots of bug fixes

1.6.092 Mainly bug fixes with some minor enhancements

- Squashed horrible restart bug
- Several bug fixes
- Upgraded to RedCloth 3.0.3, which seems stable enough
- RSS includes Bliki
- Added capacity to stop server through the edit_web template
- Added an error reporting template
- Can now display just the Mind Map image for printing
- Minor improvements to the publish interface, e.g. displaying menu

1.5.092 Bug fixes & new features release

- Several bug fixes
- RedCloth is now defaulting to 2.0.11. Controllable thru commandline.
- Advanced Search
- c2 wiki links via [c2[PageName]]
- FavIcon (working in Firefox)
- Madeleine Snapshot Controls (thru edit_web)

1.4.092 New features release

- Added a major/minor edit override for the default 'continous edit' when
  revising a page.
- MarkDown can now be through RedCloth 3.0.0 (experimental) or BlueCloth.
- Integrated Instiki release 0.9.2 features and bug fixes.
- Todo@Context
- Edit page on double click  (based on Mark Reid's patch to Instiki)
- Possibility to require edit password for each edit
- Persist user changes to free-wiki menu content
- Numerous bug fixes.

1.3.092 New features and bug fixes release

- Updated to RedCloth v3.0.0.
- Fixed problem with incorrect handling of some complex link formats and
  <pre> tags. (Justin)
- Expanded search to look also in Bliki entries.
- Can now show diff between Bliki entry versions.
- Editing left-side menu is now password protected.
- Added capacity in Mind Map to filter displayed pages by category and/or
  filter leaf nodes (i.e. pages that do not have links to other pages). This
  cuts down on the anount of visual information to give a bit more topical
  view of the web.
- Added custom symbols/elements: <:cbx> and <:cbxc> to display a checkbox
  (and a checked checkbox).
- Added customization options through "Edit Web":
      - Added capacity to set the prefered size of the Mind Map image.
      - Customizable mapping of symbols/elements (in progress).
      - Added capacity for custom link formats (in progress).

1.2.092 Bug-fix and minor enhancements release

- Fixed problem with free-content of menu. (Mark S)
- Fixed problem in persisting menu-type changes.
- Fixed broken images in Mind Map under Firefox 1.0

1.1.092 Bug-fix and minor enhancements release

- Changed storage path to be relative to CWD to avoid storing under gem
  version directory. When running/installing service should normally
  provide the --storage command-line parameter. (Chad)
- Fixed a problem with the bliki_new form that prevented saving the entry
  due to debug code in the JS validation code of the entry name. (PragDave)
- Fixed problem with export and storage path relating to app-dir instead
  of storage dir in Instiki core. (Prag Dave)
- Fixed problem of missing files in in tgz packaging (rake needs 
  PackagingTask defined _before_ GemPackageTask). (Ruben)
- Fixed require 'YAML' to correct 'yaml' in Instiki core. (Chad)
- Added capability to link from pages to Bliki entries. To use link via:
  [bliki[entry name]]
- ToDo list picks up items from bliki entries and links to the entry (Ruben)
- Menu can be set as all pages belonging to a specific category. If you set
  some page to a category e.g. 'menu', only those pages will appear on the
  left-side menu.

1.0.092 Updated Initial Release

- Finalized Numbering scheme.
- Made available as a gem.

0.9.2-7 Initial Public Release

I have been working on Pimki for my own use for quite some time. It is
fairly mature and stable. The version number reflects the base Instiki
version (0.9.2; or actually the latest CVS that's markes so) and the
running number of my feature-addition releases.

Download latest from: rubyforge.org/project/showfiles.php?group_id=447

Or go the Gem way and install through: gem install pimki

Visit the official Pimki home page at: pimki.rubyforge.org/

Visit the official Instiki wiki: www.instiki.org/

License is the same as Ruby’s.

– Assaph Mehr [email protected]