The second part of my organizational system involves using tonido. Tonido basically turns your home computer into a private server. You can access your files from anywhere like with Dropbox and it also allows you to access and share your files with web links. I use this to link to any files that I am working on and might reference with dokuwiki. With this system all of your files stay on your own computer and not scanned by 3rd party robots (except the public portions of your wiki). The only downside of tonido is that your computer that is running is has to be running to access the files that are referenced in dokuwiki. Since I keep an always on computer at home that stores all my files I can just access any files of it without having to store duplicates on my other devices. I can access any file from this machine with a web browser. I can view any media files on my HTPC which runs on usb since I don’t need to store files on it. My phone can access all of my files including music streaming from my computer and photo galleries/slideshow.

Sorry for the long comment but hopefully it helps someone see some of the benefits of what your own wiki can do.

As a structural Engineer I have found Tiddlywiki and D-cubed invaluable, not only as a journal but also so that I can index the various technical documents and snippets of information in a structuredmanner. Makes finding that vital bit of information a doddle.

I would particularly recommend use of the //include// plug-in. It allows you to subdivide wikis so that you can write tem as standalone subject specific wikis or make them part of your own humungous information retrieval system.

Until recently my most favourite and most used plug-in was Tiddlysnip. You could highlight parts of a text page, right click on the mouse, it would automatically add the souce of the informatio, bundle it up into a tiddler in any specified wiki. Unfortunately since version 3.0 of Firefox there have been difficulties in getting it to work and the genius who wrote te original code seems to have lost interest and so i is being hacked on an ad-hoc basis, information on which you can get from the relevant Google forum.

For plug-ins I have found the most visited site is http://www.tiddlytools.com where Ray Shulman has done a great job of producing and packaging not only basic Tiddlywikis but also various excellent extensions.

To each his own, I suppose.

For instance, if I wrote a solution to a problem I was having I would absolutely recommend creating a gist or a blog post. If I found a solution from someone else’s project, I would include a link to it attached to the task in my wiki.