Personal Wikis

I found a free personal wiki, bLADE, that I’m using for my seminar paper this semester. The great beauty of it is that you can take notes on your various resources, each on its own page, or, for that matter, paste whole articles onto a page, and later, when the writing starts, rather than searching for this note or that note or where you read what, you can search the wiki and find every page that contains, say for example, “modernization.” Furthermore, the search feature can help you see connections that you might not have seen on your own.

The wiki can be stored on a jump drive thereby making it portable, or you can just keep it on your desktop. (I’d suggest both for the sake of safety.)