# Wiki Software

Aside from this brain which is a public static site. I thought it might be useful to have a wiki that houses important private information.

Possible Contents:

• information about living situation

  • insurance, mortgage
  • paints
  • repairs needed/completed

• log of information possibly useful to me/family at any point in the future

• instructions in the event of my sudden demise/incapacitation

• knowledge I want to preserve but don’t want in my public brain

## Features I want

• possible to edit flat files

  • scp files
  • git-backend

• embed or attach rich media (documents/images/videos)

• customizability

  • integrations
  • theming

## Options

### PmWiki

It was kinda slow even just trying to use its own website.

### MediaWiki

### Wiki.js

### OtterWiki

### DocuWiki

Briefly had this running but did was not a fan of the workflow to edit static files.

## OtterWiki

For now I have an active wiki that is essentially unused… But it has the following features which make it attractive to me:

• git-backend, I can clone locally edit and push changes
• markdown-based, I don’t write wiki’s so this syntax has less friction
• written in python, I can’t reason about things happening in php/js as easily but this leaves a simpler door for future extensibility, if I want to contribute upstream

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