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+title: On how to use vim as a personal wiki
+summary: In which I describe how I use vim as a personal wiki.
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+There is different reasons to want a personal wiki on your machine:
+
+* privacy
+* having it everywhere
+
+I've tested a few wikis engines, like tiddlywiki, but I've found nothing that was really what I wanted. The main inconveniance is the need to use a webbrowser. A browser is not a text processor, so it's really painfull to use them for writing.
+
+I've started to try to use vim as wiki. Why would I want to use something like vim for this ? well, it's plain text (easy to grep, or to write script for manipulating data), application independent, it's a real text processor, you can customize it, and most importantly, I know how to use it, ...
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+I've got a **wiki** directory in my home directory, with all my files in it.  I use git to track versions of it (you can use svn if you prefer, there is no difference for this usage). In my .vimrc, i've added this instruction: `set exrc`.
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+In my wiki directory, i've got another .vimrc with some specific mapping:
+
+    map ,I  <esc>:e index.mkd <cr>
+    map ,T  <esc>:e todo.mkd <cr>
+    map ,S  <esc>:e someday.mkd <cr>
+    map ,c  <esc>:s/^ /c/<cr>
+    map ,w  <esc>:s/^ /w/<cr>
+    map ,x  <esc>:s/^ /x/<cr>
+    map gf :e <cfile>.mkd<cr> " open page
+    map <backspace> :bp<cr>
+    imap \date <c-R>=strftime("%Y-%m-%d")<cr>
+    set tabstop=2                   " Number of spaces <tab> counts for.
+    set shiftwidth=2                " Unify
+    set softtabstop=2               " Unify
+
+I organize my files in directory. I've got a *work*, *lists*, *recipes*, *misc*, ... and I put my files in this directory.
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+I've got an index page, with links to main section. I don't have wikiword in camelcase or things like that, so if i want to put a link to a page, I just wrote the link this way **dir_name/page_name**, then, i juste have to hit **gf** on this link to open the page.  I also use this place as a todo list manager. I've got one paragrah per day, like this : 
+
+> 2008-06-14
+>  - [@context] task 1
+>  - [@context] task 2
+>  ...
+
+and a bunch of vim mapping for marking complete (**,c**), work in progress (**,w**) or canceled (**,x**).
+
+If i don't have a deadline for a particular task, I use a 'someday' file, where the task is put with a context.
+
+The good things with markdown, is that the syntax is easy to use, and it's easy to convert to HTML.