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  • Create a bookmarklet and a keyboard shortcut where I can press some keyboard combination and have copied to my clipboard linked text, where the URL is the current page and the text is in the format 'YYYY.MM.DD - Domain.TLD - Title of Page'

How I use my wiki

  • I use it to work out what I should think about a variety of subjects. It's like when you work out a math problem on paper: you write things down to help you keep track of a complicated problem so you can focus on only a small part of it at a time. A good example of this kind of problem is, "When should I combine subjects into a single wiki page and when should I have them as separate wiki pages?"
  • I like to write my thoughts in Notepad as soon as I have them and then later transfer them to my wiki when I have time.

Best practices for using a Confluence wiki

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  • If users will be often reading the page name in the child page / sidebar list, it may be a good idea to name the page with the specific designation first and the general designation second (e.g. if the parent page is named "Mobile", then the child page should be named "Development Frameworks (Mobile)" rather than "Mobile Development Frameworks").

How to get all of the random thoughts that come to you through the day onto your wiki

  1. Jot down ideas as they come to you in a single Notepad++ tab that you keep open at all times. Preface each note with a keyword (preferably the name of the wiki page where it should go) so you can quickly categorize the notes later;  for example, "gym:"
    1. You do this instead of immediately adding the thought to your wiki because it reduces the 'cost' (in terms of your time) of writing the idea down.
  2. When you have a lot of notes, break up the big single text file into multiple text files, where each text file corresponds to a page on your wiki.
    1. Have your always-open dumping-ground notes text file on the left side of your screen and the wiki-page-specific text file on the right side.
    2. Do a "find" and look for keywords on the general notes page to quickly find all of the notes related to a specific topic.
    3. When you find something related to the wiki page which you have a text file for on the right side of your screen, cut the text from the left note file and paste it on the right file.
    4. Handle one wiki-page notes text file at a time (i.e. search for all of the notes in your general-text-file related to that page of your wiki at once); don't jump between them as that'll take longer.
  3. Move your notes from your text-files-specific-to-a-wiki-page onto the wiki itself.
    1. If I'm not sure where to put them on the wiki page, I put it in a "staging area" ("Misc ideas to file").

Nice-to-know

Editing a page

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  • I wish that the quick-suggested pages would work such that if I did a search for a term and there were no pages that matched, it would then search the H1 tags, and then the H2 tags, etc. for that term.
    • Example: when I searched "amazon associate", it returned no "quick" results, and so I had to hit "Enter" and load the full search results page to click on the "Business tools" page that contained that "amazon associate" H1 tag.
  • I wish atlassian did what Jetbrains did in having function names / class names as parts of the hierarchy and having them show up in the sidebar. With Confluence it would be the heading names that could show up in the sidebar and show up in searches.

An example structure for a company wiki

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