wikidPad is a Wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts, or anything else you can think of to write down. What makes wikidPad different from other notepad applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information.

WikidPad is a wiki-like notebook for storing your thoughts, ideas, todo lists, contacts or anything else you can think of that's important. What makes WikidPad different from other notepad or outliner applications is the ease with which you can cross-link your information.

WikidPad makes making notes, linking them and finding them back very fast and very easy. It allows you to create and maintain multiple independant wiki's, that are each stored in their own folder on disk.

After installing the program and starting it up for the first time, Wikidpad will open these helppages, that are implemented as a WikidPad wiki. Creating your first personal wiki is now as easy as choosing Wiki / New on the menu bar and answering the questions on:

WikidPad supports a number of features in the area of page formatting, like: automatic generation of titles, based on the page's page link; setting properties like foreground, background and link colors; using existing pages as templates for new ones. A complete description of all the possibilities can be found in page formatting.

This is the latest backend for WikidPad. Like Gadfly, this also stores each wiki page in a plain text file with a .wiki extention in wiki / data. The database to index the wiki is stored in the file "wikiovw.sli". This type is nearly as fast as Compact Sqlite, but it doesn't have it's disadvantages. It dóes however need an external binary. Top

Multiple pages can be worked on at the same time, since Wikidpad supports tabbed pages. The main tree forms an active index into the pages; it can be split in two, showing the page tree and the views tree in different sections.

Control if expanded tree nodes should be remembered by WikidPad. This means if you collapse a tree node which contains expanded child nodes yet and expand the node later, the child nodes are expanded again.

Hotkeys work system-wide, not only if WikidPad is active. In the text field you can enter a hotkey in the same way as the menu shortcuts are. Unlike menu shortcuts, you can also use "win" as modifier (like "alt" or "ctrl"), but the hotkey must have at …

WikidPad can export wiki pages to. an XML file; a set of .wiki files ; a multi page text file. To export a wiki to .wiki files you can select the predefined option: "Wiki / Export / Export Wiki to .wiki files" in the main menu. This function uses default WikidPad settings.