Mshell: Created page with "I used Microsoft OneNote as my primary note-taking app for over ten years. When I decided to switch to a wiki-based system, I looked at Confluence, Notion, Obsidian, and others. Ideal Criteria * Widely adopted * Open source * Not owned by a commercial vendor * A platform that could be deployed to a scalable infrastructure * No advertisement or selling/sharing of user data * Minimal formatting options: the goal is to capture and organize ideas - not to make them look p..."

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Created page with "I used Microsoft OneNote as my primary note-taking app for over ten years. When I decided to switch to a wiki-based system, I looked at Confluence, Notion, Obsidian, and others. Ideal Criteria * Widely adopted * Open source * Not owned by a commercial vendor * A platform that could be deployed to a scalable infrastructure * No advertisement or selling/sharing of user data * Minimal formatting options: the goal is to capture and organize ideas - not to make them look p..."

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I used Microsoft OneNote as my primary note-taking app for over ten years. When I decided to switch to a wiki-based system, I looked at Confluence, Notion, Obsidian, and others.

Ideal Criteria

* Widely adopted
* Open source
* Not owned by a commercial vendor
* A platform that could be deployed to a scalable infrastructure
* No advertisement or selling/sharing of user data
* Minimal formatting options: the goal is to capture and organize ideas - not to make them look pretty. I didn't want to spend a lot of time formatting.
* Customizable
* Infinitely scalable

MediaWiki has already solved many difficult problems: version history, user accounts, templates, categories, search, structured data extensions, VisualEditor, and a mature ecosystem.

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