When comparing WackoWiki vs Trilium Notes, the Slant community recommends WackoWiki for most people. In the question“What is the best single-user wiki?” WackoWiki is ranked 3rd while Trilium Notes is ranked 6th. The most important reason people chose WackoWiki is:
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
Specs
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Pros
Pro Supports namespaces
It allows pages to be divided among "directories / namespaces" using forward slashes.
Pro Access control
WackoWiki has built-in ACL support.
Pro Highly customizable
You can use themes and plugins (actions, handlers, highlighters) to extend functionality.
Pro Section editing
Allows editing only a section of a page.
Pro File upload and management tools
WackoWiki allows to upload and manage uploaded files for certain pages and for the whole system.
Pro Very fast, consuming very few resources
WackoWiki allows to run it on web hostings with few resources.
Pro Forum component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a forum.
Pro Hierarchical page tree
WackoWiki has a hierarchical page tree and page categories.
Pro Version control
WackoWiki offers unlimited page revisions.
Pro Built-in template engine
It has a powerful and easy to use templating system.
Pro RSS-feeds
WackoWiki allows to feed recent changes, recent comments and news as RSS.
Pro Free and open source
Distributed under the BSD License.
Pro Runs on any PHP server
It requires a webserver running PHP.
Pro A dedicated page for Alphabetic pages catalog
A dedicated page for Alphabetic page tree catalog is set by default.
Pro News component
WackoWiki allows to organize wiki pages with comments to a news feed.
Pro Multilingual with UTF-8
WackoWiki is multilingual with full UTF-8 support
Pro Search functionality
WackoWiki allows searching through pages.
Pro A dedicated page for recent changes
A dedicated page to quickly note what has changed recently is set by default.
Pro A dedicated page for recent comments
A dedicated page to quickly note what pages has been recently commented is set by default.
Pro Responsive Mobile-friendly template
Has responsive mobile-friendly design template.
Pro Free and open source software
Pro Note encryption
Pro Excellent WYSIWYG interface
Pro Attributes that can be assigned to nodes and inherited
Pro Graph of node connectivity
Pro Note versioning
Pro Synchronization with a server
You can set up synchronization but you need a server to do this.
Pro Database storage rather than files
This enables the tool to do a lot of things that would be difficult with plain text file storage.
Pro Archival functionality
Cons
Con Interface can be confusing
There is a fair amount of flexibility to the interface but it can also become confusing, especially when some parts are not necessarily simple to use. Most of the basic features nevertheless are intuitive.
Con Database storage rather than files
This makes it a little less simple to work with (also has benefits).
Con Not markdown
It will import and export markdown but it does not store content as markdown. This isn't necessarily a problem if you don't need it.
Con Synchronization requires use of Trilium's sync server
This can be problematic to set up unless you have a web server that will support the requirements of this.
