cowyo

A feature-rich wiki for minimalists

cowyo is a self-contained wiki server that makes jotting notes easy and fast. The most important feature here is simplicity. Other features include versioning, page locking, self-destructing messages, encryption, and listifying. You can download cowyo as a single executable or install it with Go. Try it out at https://cowyo.com.

Getting Started

Install

If you have go

go get -u -v github.com/schollz/cowyo

or just download from the latest releases.

Run

To run just double click or from the command line:

cowyo

and it will start a server listening on 0.0.0.0:8050. To view it, just go to http://localhost:8050 (the server prints out the local IP for your info if you want to do LAN networking). You can change the port with -port X, and you can listen only on localhost using -host localhost.

Usage

cowyo is straightforward to use. Here are some of the basic features:

Editing

When you open a document you'll be directed to an alliterative animal (which is supposed to be easy to remember). You can write in Markdown. Saving is performed as soon as you stop writing. You can easily link pages using [[PageName]] as you edit.

History

You can easily see previous versions of your documents.

Lists

You can easily make lists and check them off.

Locking

Locking prevents other users from editing your pages without a passphrase.

Encryption

Encryption is performed using AES-256.

Self-destructing pages

Just like in mission impossible.

License

MIT