JDPFu.com 2025

If you’re like me, you take notes all the time. You may have tried using paper, todo lists, spreadsheets and even personal wikis like TiddlyWiki or SoloWiki to accomplish this. Having the notes available at home, at work and when you aren’t connected is a requirement. Well, I accidentally came across a new browser/javascript tool today called Memonaut

I’ve just played with Memonaut a few minutes. It does bulleted lists, indented lists, numbered lists and generic notes all with HTML and JavaScript. There’s some lite formating too – bold, italics, strike-through, etc. The setup is like TiddlyWiki – you open a specific HTML file and start adding content. Then you “Save” the file to store the updates. Certainly there will be performance/size issues when lots of content is added, but then you just archive the file and start a new one, perhaps monthly? TiddlyWiki was used at a previous employer to share How-To Team information after we were merged into an other group. That data sharing probably saved lots of jobs because about 30 people who were trying to understand how things worked AND who to call for “x” were able to centrally store and access that data.

Did I mention that this works when you’re offline?

Anyway, Memonaut could be worth a look. Obviously this is cross platform AND it requires JavaScript to be enabled in your browser for local HTML files (which could be a security concern).

Enjoy.