10 useful things to do with a blummy wiki

Alex Kirk has released a major update to blummy which makes it even more useful in my opinion. ( If you haven’t encountered blummy yet, I linked back in October )

The addition of a personal wiki instantly accessible from any computer is no feature bloat, it’s a logical extension to the idea of web hosted personal and social bookmarklets.

A personal wiki is a scratch pad and an extension of your own memory – not a collaborative space like a mediawiki.

It’s completely portable across platforms and computers, so I can use it just to keep short term “to do” lists with instant continuity between homes and workplaces. It’s getting close to the point where all I have to do on a strange computer for the first time is to load firefox and add the blummy bookmarklet to the toolbar.

1) Store the URL for your own blog so you can paste it in when leaving comments etc.
2) Store short pieces of frequently used code relevent to the current project.
3) Maintain a private but portable “to do” list.
4) Jot down a phone number which somebody tells you.
5) Collect potentially interesting URLs from messages while you’re reading them, then Furl+deli.cio.us them more systematically later.
6) Write down a new idea in one sentence before it evaporates.
7) Save your last comment in case it fails to publish.
Refactor part of a Wikipedia entry before submitting it when their servers are too slow.
9) Write a reflective haiku.
10) Capture details of expenses to make sure they end up in accounts.

Tags: blummy, wiki, bookmarklet, web2.0, cop2.0, firefox