I figure I should ask this before I start writing my own...

I'm looking for an app that I can use as a repository of information about a subject. Here's the sort of features I want:

  • Individual "articles" where I can write about the things I've learned/discovered/theorized
  • Be able to tag these articles with keywords (like tags on this question)
  • Be able to group these articles into folders of related stuff.
  • Smart folders would be especially nice.
  • Be able to write these articles in a simple format. Markdown would be wonderful.
  • Be able to search through the articles to find stuff/Spotlight integration.
  • Must be a native Mac app. Not a web app. Having a companion iOS app would be a major bonus.
  • Article versioning would be nice.
  • Automatically detecting related articles (even a simple algorithm) would be nice.

Basically, I think I want an off-line, personal Wikipedia that I can write in Markdown. Do any of you know of an app (or apps) that does what I'm looking for?


You might try also DEVONthink which is a bit expensive but works for me.


Voodoopad or yojimbo would be nice starts. Ask @ccgus fir the pitch


Trunk Notes might work, but it's coming at the problem from the other end as it's an iOS app instead of Mac OS. It uses dropbox for sync, though, so you could edit the files on any machine. A Mac translator/renderer to work with it would be cool.

Edit: Looks like someone is trying to make a desktop app to work with it: http://code.google.com/p/trunkdesk/. I have no idea how well it works as I haven't tried it yet.