Ideal Personal Wiki

I know this might be difficult thing to ask for, due to the varying requirements and uses of PersonalWikis, but here's a seed wishlist for the features and characteristics of an Ideal Personal Wiki:

Standard Features:

• Use plaintext wiki pages
• Allow at least basic formatting
• URL and file linking
• Allows export to html - both of the entire wiki or 'subnodes'
• WikiWord auto-completion
• WikiWord Searching
• Incremental Searching
• A rename page function
• Allow for WikiWord aliases
• Software should be ported to PocketPC and Palm
• The Software should also be OpenSource.

Extended Features: (even more wishful)

• Is extendable using a standard scripting language
• support some sort of Tree/Outline view
• also allow some kind of mindmap / flowchart / network diagram view (see sdidesk for an idea) (even better put CamelCase on a network link and it jumps to the page. Also use includes to get diagram and linked text on a page.
• Allow the configuration of the plaintext wiki page extension (for use with less flexible wiki tools)
• Allow for definitions of Interwiki-type standards (this could allow you to use Interwiki syntax to access external applications)
• Allowing for the creation of categories (possibly using folders)
• Allowing the use of filesystem folder structures. This would essentially allow the benefits of a hierarchical structure. (This would probably be terribly difficult to implement - and I'm not sure if it's possible to do without compromising the WikiNature.)
• Some sort of wiki journal functionality - something like EmacsPlannerMode
• Encryption to store passwords and other sensitive data

To Be Perfect:

• Software released under GPL.

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I've long since settled on WikidPad, but very recently have started thinking of TomBoy -- JaysenNaidoo

WikidPad is free at the moment. There is a link on their site. -- JRoeterd

Yes. Happily, Jason Horman released WikidPad it under his own open source license, similar to BSD license, in June 2005 -- JaysenNaidoo