I've fallen in love with the wiki tools for Drupal. I've long wanted to abandon the PMWiki and Jot Wiki I've used over the years in favor of something that's utterly simple, integrates well with the set of tools I currently use, and works like a wiki should. The set of modules currently offered for Drupal finally lets me do this with the forward linking and MediaWiki syntax that I come to expect from a wiki.

To see how this all works in Drupal, you have to check out the demonstrations and simple documentation for using wiki_tools and the pearwiki_filter modules. Getting up and running will require a few steps to install the right modules and get everything configured—this isn't a single module plug and play task. That How To page gives you the recipe for configuring everything, including installing some nice experimental plugins like the section_edit module. I installed my wiki on a separate Drupal site rather than under my blog in order to keep things simple, but you shouldn't need to if you want all your content accessible in one place.

Try it out. While it lacks some of the more advanced features of Jot, e.g. date-related functionality like creating to dos, it's more than adequate for most note-taking wiki needs. For light project management activities, I might prefer something like Jot's PM module instead (or BaseCamp, but I'd prefer free over fee), but for now I'm trashing my wiki notes on Jot and using my own Drupal wiki instead.