I just want to clarify here -- are you aware that personal wikis and server software such as MediaWiki are different classes of software? [...] Personal wiki software is generally just an ordinary program, meaning it has it's own GUI and can have features that it would be insecure to expose over the internet.
Apparently not! I didn't realize "personal wikis" referred to wikis implemented as separate, ordinary programs; I'd thought they ran on web-server-plus-scripting-language stacks as MediaWiki does, just with smaller, simpler codebases and far simpler database schemas (or indeed a bunch of flat files instead of a full-blown database).
Anyway I mainly commented because using MediaWiki only for your own personal notes seems rather like cracking a walnut with a sledgehammer.
Yeah. Were I to do this again I'd look more deeply at the simpler personal wiki programs out there rather than just shrugging and going with the more familiar choice.
We all deal with a lot of information. What are your strategies of taking notes for new information?
Do you take any notes on paper? If so do you scan them or otherwise digilatize them?
Do you have specific strategies for deciding which information to write down?
How do you write notes to capture all important information?
Do you tag your notes?
If you use Evernote, or a similar system how private are your notes? Would you allow friends to read in them? Your spouse?