There are topics and ideas that occur to me that I'd like to keep notes on. Oddly, and to my disappointment, it is not so easy to do that in a wiki.
For instance, the ways to add a new page in this wiki 1) are
I would like to be able to just add a page as I would a content list, like a blog post or annotated URL post.
Having created lots of pages in the second manner, I've made a lot of orphan pages 2) on this blog. Some of them I've tried to make less isolated by adding their contact info to Twigs.
In a way, this page is just another twigs page but it is meant to be used for the first manner of page-adding as a default place to add links before creation, not just for gathering orphans after the fact.
How many copies of my photos and various other content do I have, and where are they? What might I want to eliminate? What might I want to keep an additional replica of, and where might I keep that replica? How will I know where things are when I went to use them again?
A key tool, I suspect, is to supplement my human memory with a catalog, probably digital as well.
Actually, I've already begun cataloguing, but would like to increase my coverage to make sure at least all the things I value that have only a digital existence are included. I've catalogued my physical books with LibraryThing, and catalogued some of the journal articles I've acquired (legally, as a student or alumnus for the most part) with Zotero. But which of my photos are where?
There are several features lacking in this site's management software. An idealized redesign is a first step in toward a system better suited to my needs. The features are mostly in contributor empowerment: make it possible, as one composes a page, to set the access control3) parameters of the material. Another is content fission, to be able to split a page into two or more smaller pages, which might then each expand. Off-line editing would be nice; wiki mark-up is easy to use in a basic editor, but the resulting files cannot just be uploaded (like other media, photos and such), the text has to be copied and pasted into the web editor.