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Imagine being isolated off-grid for an unknown number of years. Maybe you're stuck somewhere like Davidge or Mark Watney; or perhaps you've chosen a life of isolation like Yoda or Obi-Wan Kenobi. Maybe you're a survivor of the $Apocalypse. Wouldn't keeping a journal be a great idea? You could pass on your knowledge, keep track of daily activities, maybe even keep yourself from going insane!
Forget all the wastefulness, extravagance, and complexity of most modern devices, you've got survival to think about! Obviously power usage would be a major concern, but ergonomics, searchability, repairability, and data robustness would be important too. Keeping in mind that this is a dedicated device for journaling and barring the old Russian pencil and paper, what would the best solution look like with off-the-shelf modern technology?
(Score: 2) by edIII on Monday June 11 2018, @11:46PM
Not that I would recommend this out in the middle of nowhere, but I can 2nd TiddlyWiki. Ended up not using it because it was just too isolated, and didn't offer the ability for multiple people to use at once. We needed something a bit more Enterprise like WRT features.
TiddlyWiki can be completely self contained only requiring a basic web browser, or you can use it with a minimalist web server to run it off a network server. There is a server side PHP script that will let you save your changes directly to the file on the server, instead of a local file. A consequence of that is basic authentication so that only authorized users can make changes to the Wiki.
I can also say that I love their version of Markdown, and found it *very* easy to use creating new pages, links, ToC, etc. Only thing I didn't like about TiddlyWiki was its fully self contained nature, and that it didn't lend itself well at all to environments with multiple users & multiple authors.
TiddlyWiki [tiddlywiki.com]
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