Using personal wikis to write complex stories

[Counter Arts]

Because writing multipath stories are so hard to organize, why not use a pesonal wiki to write them?

Just an idea I have since I really would like to see more complex stories (branching wise) and many good story ideas get lost.

[monele]

I did that for Utsukushii Planet. And I still use my wiki to take all kinds of notes about my projects . Definitely useful.

[gekiganwing]

I tried searching for "story wiki" and "fiction wiki" to find examples of how to do this. The best I could find was http://www.ourpyramiddiet.com/wiki/doku ... =wiki_book

Is there another good example of how to create something similar?

[lordcloudx]

how bout just using tads or adrift? Since they have this system for creating rooms and stuff.

[monele]

That's pretty much all there is to it...
You make a main table with sections and maybe quick links to sub-sections. After that, inside each page, you can link to other pages. For example, while writing about the story, and mentionning some character, you turn the name into a link to the character's sheet where you get all the details. If you mention a location, same thing... If you mention a previous event, same thing.
Linking is the whole idea. Of course, in the end, you might just end up using it as a simple hierarchical organiser.

[dizzcity]

You guys mean something like Storyspace? I haven't used it myself, but I heard that it was pretty good. A little more functionality than a wiki, as it's customised specifically for telling hypertext narratives. The trouble is, of course, that it's a commercial product (although they DO have a free demo)

-Dizzy-

[Hime]

Unnh, I'm kind of a newbie with these Wikis, so in case someone feels like explaining... How do personal wikis differ from the normal ones? Is it that they can be edited by only one person who owns the wiki, or something else? And... How can you get one? ^^;

[Jake]

Unnh, I'm kind of a newbie with these Wikis, so in case someone feels like explaining... How do personal wikis differ from the normal ones? Is it that they can be edited by only one person who owns the wiki

Mostly, yeah. It's like the distinction between "open forum" and "personal forum", I guess; you could run a personal forum somewhere, maybe on your home machine, that only you or people on your local network could access, or you could stick it up on the web and allow anyone to register and post.

or something else? And... How can you get one? ^^;

That said, I've been using TiddlyWiki on and off for a little while for structured note-taking. I'm pretty sure it was someone on this forum who recommended it...

Advantages: You don't need to set up a webserver or anything to make it work.
Disadvantages: It doesn't seem to work too well in Opera, which I use for my web-browsing, so I end up having to run Firefox just for that...

[Enerccio]

Unnh, I'm kind of a newbie with these Wikis, so in case someone feels like explaining... How do personal wikis differ from the normal ones? Is it that they can be edited by only one person who owns the wiki

Mostly, yeah. It's like the distinction between "open forum" and "personal forum", I guess; you could run a personal forum somewhere, maybe on your home machine, that only you or people on your local network could access, or you could stick it up on the web and allow anyone to register and post.

or something else? And... How can you get one? ^^;

That said, I've been using TiddlyWiki on and off for a little while for structured note-taking. I'm pretty sure it was someone on this forum who recommended it...

Advantages: You don't need to set up a webserver or anything to make it work.
Disadvantages: It doesn't seem to work too well in Opera, which I use for my web-browsing, so I end up having to run Firefox just for that...

can you write any good way to use that tiddlewiki?

[monele]

TiddlyWiki is pretty cool. I stopped using it because of lack of backup reasons, though. Maybe it's been fixed now, though ^^;.

Otherwise, WikidPad is really neat too. It's an actual win32 application, not something web-based.
http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/

[Raikiri]

Otherwise, WikidPad is really neat too. It's an actual win32 application, not something web-based.
http://www.jhorman.org/wikidPad/

I started to play around with this last night. It's simple, but very functional. I think I'll manage to put it to good use.

[Enerccio]

That wikipad is perfect.
I started writing a bit of story and it ended like story:

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*Dark*
[voice] "Welcome..."
me: "Who are you?"
me: "Where am I?"
me: "Hello, anybody here?

and around other 20 pages that describe this part xD

[Vatina]

I just tried this Wikipad as well. Pretty useful.... maybe I'll actually finish something with this xD