As for me, I’m using it to organize my never ending supply of notes. This means that I can access my notes remotely from anywhere (big deal), and also file attachments related to notes (kind of nice). Add in a HTTP-based authentication, and SSL support, and you’ve got a decent solution for keeping track of sensitive notes and documents.

Plus, PmWiki even supports extra plugins, called cookbooks, that allow you to add functionality not present in the basic installation of PmWiki. I’m using the attachment cookbook, since it allows better management of attached files. Installation of PmWiki is suspiciously easy, but it’s the customization that makes up for the easy installation. Overall, it took about 30 minutes to fully customize PmWiki to allow large file uploads, and install the cookbook that I wanted.

As a freelance Linux administrator, the biggest benefit of this is that I can pull notes remotely from anywhere, from any computer that has an Internet connection and a web browser. Haven’t we all been in situations where we wished we had access to notes on a project, or files related to a project? This is the cool feature of PmWiki- it allows even Linux administrators to keep track of their notes!