My Ideas from A Year Ago

About a year ago, we started to use SnipSnap, which was my first exposure to actually using Wiki. I was very much at loss to figure out what SnipSnap was and what it did for me (and other people). It was not obvious at all. The Germans don't usually produce good documentation. When I really got it, my mind started to race. Here is the main idea I had in that period.

ThinkTank: The Thought Processing and Sharing Tool

Purpose

• thought processing
• thought sharing

Data Types

• Paragraph
• content can be any type
• == p tag
  
• List
• Element can be any type
• Ordered List (numbered)
• == ol tag
  
• Unordered List (unnumbered)
• == ul tag
  
• Table
• Cell can be any type
• == table tag
  
• Custom Types

Editors

• text editor (for paragraph)
• outline editor (for nested lists)
• table editor (for tables)
• pluggable editors and viewers

Exports

• as Word
• as Excel
• as HTML
• as XML

Organization

• multiple categories
• keywords
• keyword and full-text search
• symbolic links

Architecture

• Local Application
• data entry for all types
• synchronized with remote service
• on PC or Palm
• Remote Service
• central storage
• data type processing

Sharing

• personal spaces
• shared spaces
• access control
• change notification
• change approval

Today when I reviewed this, I was really surprised at how little this idea had changed.