I’m feeling really comfortable with Pimki. It’s become as permanent a fixture in my working – and now private – life as any piece of software can be.

I’m now able to spend a huge percentage of my working day in Firefox. Currently, I run the browser first thing in the morning and it logs into Fastmail, my business wiki, our household wiki and Clockwork. And that’s just the start…

Now, all I need to do is to get my To Do lists out of Palm Desktop and into Pimki.

Following on from my posting about Pimki the other day, I’ve been exchanging e-mails with Pimki’s developer, Assaph Mehr.

He’s a very nice chap, keen to listen to users – he’s about to make a feature request from me a reality! – and to squash bugs.

Meanwhile, I seem to be adding a zillion extra pages of content each day – well, maybe just a small exaggeration.

I’m also finding a great way of using Pimki with my existing GTD methods – technically quite separate, of course, but using the ToDos as an Inbox for the rest of the system.

I’ll maybe write some more about it once I’m sure it’s a sensible way of working.

My last post was about a wiki. I was in love with WxWikiServer.

It was a flirtation that lasted a week. I loved what the wiki did, and marvelled at how easy it was to get up and running. But after a week being stared at by that damned bear and a page design that didn’t deserve the name, I said enough’s enough.

All the publicity around Backpack led me to Instiki, and from there I followed the fork to Pimki, a wiki with a PIM flavour.

Installation was almost as easy as with WxWikiServer and the simple, clean interface is something I can live with.

The only downside is that Instiki/Pimki doesn’t seem as solid as WxWikiServer – I’ve had a couple of crashes.

But I’m hooked. A wiki now takes its place alongside my word processor, Web browser, spreadsheet, and text editor as an application I use every day. But it’s not every day you add a new category of application to your arsenal.

My Palm sync went west earlier in the week (now mysteriously fixed), and I very nearly took the plunge and took a paid subscription to Backpack. But then the GTD flavour of TiddlyWiKi is l’application du jour…just Google GTD TiddlyWiki or TiddlyWiki, and you’ll see what I mean.

Between them, Backpack and GTD TiddlyWiki have got me thinking that I need something Wiki-like, whether my Palm woes return or not. But, as I said last week, Backpack is not yet proven to my satisfaction.

What’s more, Wikis need all that server side stuff, and GTD Tiddly Wiki has a very nasty bug that has lost some of my data. GTDTW, in my opinion, is not yet ready for the big time, although Nathan Bowers is working on a fix.

A little Googling during that late-Saturday-night-in-front-of-the-telly-with-a-beer catatonic state, found me WxWikiServer. I’m in love! Even at the dead of night, It took me just minutes to install and configure – in effect, WxWikiServer has its own server and wiki app, and all you do is unzip and run. Then two little configuration tweaks – one to set up the Windows ID of the machine I’m running it on to allow network access, and a second to allow anonymous editing from anywhere on the network, and I was away!

WxWikiServer feels mature and solid. I’m running it on Windows 2K Professional on an old PIII; it will run on just about any flavour of Windows (desktop or server), plus Mac OS-X and Linux. If you’re looking for a Wiki and baulk at all that server-side gubbins, I’d say give it a go.

I mentioned on Monday that my life had cut itself into two halves when my Palm refused to sync with my desktop.

Well, I’ve tried on and off for the past two days to see if would play ball, to no avail.

But just now the Palm has just burst into life in its cradle to do its scheduled 1pm sync. Was it something I said?