Rich text posts in HN constantly recalled this personal story that I am waiting to happen (e.g. be developed by someone else).
Since the use of an early Palm Pilot [1] I wanted to have a personal wiki. It was a little awkward in that moment comparing to something like a Squeak Wiki [2]. So when the iPhone 1 appeared [3] there was another call.
The first versions of iOS didn't include text selection and copy and paste to generate links to new pages. In this context I did a basic reverse engineer of the UITextView and could advance this towards the "wiki dream" but it would never be accepted in the Apple Store so I abandoned the idea that was basically without a business perspective.
As tptacek [4] said recently: "For several years I just use Apple's Notes.app. It's honestly pretty great; it's frustratingly good..." [5]. I would add: but it will be more great if they add native hyperlinks within the internal notes.
Since the use of an early Palm Pilot [1] I wanted to have a personal wiki. It was a little awkward in that moment comparing to something like a Squeak Wiki [2]. So when the iPhone 1 appeared [3] there was another call.
The first versions of iOS didn't include text selection and copy and paste to generate links to new pages. In this context I did a basic reverse engineer of the UITextView and could advance this towards the "wiki dream" but it would never be accepted in the Apple Store so I abandoned the idea that was basically without a business perspective.
As tptacek [4] said recently: "For several years I just use Apple's Notes.app. It's honestly pretty great; it's frustratingly good..." [5]. I would add: but it will be more great if they add native hyperlinks within the internal notes.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palm_(PDA)
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiki
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone_(1st_generation)
[4] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=tptacek
[5] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27535683