To me, a personal [[wiki]] is (currently) a kind of digital form of a [[commonplace book]] - that is, an electronic scrapbook to record my thoughts along with snippets of things I see or hear elsewhere.
The purpose is to help me [[note-take]], organise my thoughts, and think through new things. A type of [[personal knowledge management]], I suppose.
I like the idea of calling a personal wiki a digital commonplace book, as there is lots of history to draw on from commonplace books.
I tend to use commonplace book, personal wiki, and knowledge base fairly interchangebly.
What do you put in a personal wiki?
I find writing too hard to want to spend it on things that disappear
β Martin Fowler (What is a Bliki)
Some personal wikis for inspiration.
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