Has anyone worked on a huge web writing assignment where you needed to keep... track of pages that have to be re-edited to add live links as related pages are added maintain bibliographies for both finished and yet to be assigned articles (the complete list is available but the client is deciding the order as we go along) keep copies of finished articles for my own source material store additional information which may not be included in original article but would be extremely useful for an accompanying blog article, special event announcement or second article And, of course all of these notes would need to be searchable beyond the typical title search. None of my notes can go online and I don't have a separate computer that I could configure as a server. I've seen some interesting personal Wiki-style tools but I worry that the sheer volume of what I have in mind might overwhelm the software after I've begun to build the resource and lead to a catastrophic loss of data. I'm not seeing any comments one way or the other relating to the robustness of the tools just basic feature comparisons. I would be willing to pay for the right tool but it must be reliable. I would rather go old school and double or triple document with notecards rather than risk losing the info. Any suggestions?
Guess, I'll just talk to myself so that anyone needing similar information might not have to spend as much time as I have chasing my tail on this. I downloaded a trial copy of ConnectedText yesterday. Seems like it will do what I need. I will have a bit of a learning curve to learn the various syntax and tagging for working with wikis but not as bad as learning to program in a new language. Has anyone worked with this software before? I saw some articles by educators and authors who seem to like it. And, before anyone asks, I have no affiliation with this company. I am seriously hunting for a way to keep a huge writing project under control before I end up with a notebook full of notes where I can never find what I'm looking for.
I use primitive tools such as notebooks, notepad/word documents and folders (Appropriately named) to organize and manage research. It may get a bit messy and cluttered, but it's easy. I've never undertaken projects of the scale that you seem to be struggling with though.