Dave said

Are these notes that need to be kept private?
Do they need to be secure?
Does it have to be on the web, or would a local (computer) program work?

Hello Dave, and thanks !

Private - yes.

Secure ? Not fanatically, but sufficiently...

And on the web vs. local - well, Zim/Tomboy are already local - I've tried every variation of sync too - and what I haven't found is such a thing for the web...so that's a resounding YES!, on the web, please.

Thanks and Best Wishes !

Dave said

OK, you're on shared hosting. Are you running Wordpress, a CMS, or static pages?

Hi Dave, and thanks.

I have a domain for 'play' (which was to be for business until I remembered selling stuff ain't for me...), so except for when I am experimenting it remains empty and is only an anchor for an email account.

Currently on that space I am 'playing' with (and learning about) Tiki Wiki=> which is very, very impressive !! (But it may not do what is desired despite how well made it is.)

For anyone wanting a very full-featured basis for an entire site & structure I will add that I've tried most of the OS CMSs & found them to be VERY sorely lacking.

The best/worst example was (fill in the blank) ....... Baker, and I say this because when I asked for help their goderator got so mad that he PERMANENTLY banned me from their forum.  (Meh, no biggie=> out it went, in went Joomla !!!)((Which is cool, but a bit complicated in execution.))

By way of contrast, the most difficult thing I've found yet with Tiki Wiki was gaining access to their forum because they had a spam problem and shut down registration to their community until that is solved.

But that was not a big deal as 1 chat session and 2 emails later I was merrily getting GREAT info from the very helpful members there.

In the past I dabbled with Wordpress and didn't care for it, and where I do have website content presently is just static pages because I never found a complete-website-making software which was sane enough for my liking, and as said above - I've tried out ALOT of CMSs too.

A side note regarding s/w in general as well as website making:

As an old 'DOS guy' from way back, I still object to any s/w which trashes the HDD and/or OS by taking huge liberties - and apps which REQUIRE 100's of MB are just...out.

Portable and 'green' s/w is vastly preferred by me and I'll even go as far as taking apart an installer to MAKE what I want 'go green' if such is possible.

All the website-makers I've tried install as huge & bloated things and when a site is created they DUMP all kinds of krap any & every place carelessly; then IF one is VERY lucky they MIGHT even get relative links right for navigation, but often simply do not.

My solution when making static site content (for now) is just to use a word processor and Kompozer (portable) to churn out simple pages as I desire them (why bother to learn HTML or any coding when WYSIWYG -does- work ???).

Best Wishes.

mark

Thanks Dave, for your glowing recommendation !

I've no recollection of which version I tried.

My stumbling point regarding many things I've tried was the lack of any ability to import and/or accept the zillion TXT files I need imported, as-is, into editable pages.

I even installed and configured phpBB to try this and found there's simply no way for it to import files as posts, which was very sad as it did everything else I wanted, and very well too.

The need for a files=>pages import is a big stumbling block from what I've seen thus far in just about all web apps.

As I mentioned, DokuWiki does fine at taking a folder/file structure and just using it directly - too bad it's a stinker with so many other things, including it's support...!

Another thing I tend to prefer is flat-file storage vs. DB dependency, and when I installed WP before it was 100% DB centered; Does that remain the case do you know ?

Do you recommend any specific theme and/or plug-ins for WP to simulate the simple/plain appearance & indexing shown in Zim ?

Thanks Again !

mark

Hi Dave and Thanks !

Ok:

My stumbling point regarding many things I've tried was the lack of any ability to import and/or accept the zillion TXT files I need imported, as-is, into editable pages.

That is going to be a problem no matter what you do as txt files really have no structure

File conversion (batch-style) is always an easy option for me - would HTML be better ?

Copy/paste...:

The need for a files=>pages import is a big stumbling block from what I've seen thus far in just about all web apps.

I really think you'll have to suck it up and copy/paste new topics, BUT once they reside in the database you can export, manipulate, import to/from a variety of formats.

For so much content (so many files) would take many months, actually, not very practical.

Thank you !:

I'd start with Better WP Security to lock down the installation further, WP-DBManager to automate backups and database management, and Simple Press to provide the note functionality you require.

One side-note:

If this site is currently running WP, etc - a bit of a mystery:

When I visit here (as compared to big/demanding sites...), it is not only quite slow to load/respond, but also jacks up Firefox's RAM usage by about 40 megs !!!

No other site that I can recall does that to Firefox on my PCs; and it does not clear when I close the tab either, only a restart of FF clears it back to 'normal' levels.

Best Wishes.

mark