Building a .txt db or wiki that plays with iPod?

February 1, 2006 8:02 PM

So I want to build a recipe database / wiki thingy for my iPod. Something similar to PodGourmet...

If you're not famiiar with PG, what it does is list recipes in folders like Appetizers, Desserts, etc. Once you go into those folders (on your iPod), you'll see an index at the top with clickable titles to take you to the recipes. I know this is all done with html, which I know, no problem.

However, I imagine that there is a wiki type program I can build this with to make things more linkable (for instance, to make the word carrot clikable in each recipe to take me to a list of recipes with carrots in them), and I don't know anything at all about Wikis and ones that make exportable txt files that can play with the iPod.

I'm on OS X if that's important.

Suggestions?

posted by You Should See the Other Guy to computers & internet (9 comments total)

Also, related but not, I guess: any way to make the iPod also attach photos to the recipes or am I restricted to photos in their own section of the iPod?
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 8:04 PM on February 1, 2006

You could always try using iPod's native notes feature.
posted by charmston at 9:11 PM on February 1, 2006

The application WikiNotes can make a fully linked wiki then export it as linked iPod notes. That would be a great app for doing this with.
posted by shanevsevil at 9:57 PM on February 1, 2006

WikiNotes is interesting, I was going to suggest WikiPad, but it is PC only.
posted by Good Brain at 10:02 PM on February 1, 2006

VoodooPad
posted by justgary at 10:07 PM on February 1, 2006

Yes I use WikiNotes for both putting e-books on the iPod and for some general personal wiki purposes. The developer is a talented individual.
posted by shanevsevil at 10:11 PM on February 1, 2006

VoodooPad.

Totally what you want. Wiki on the Mac. Creates usable HTML autolinked ipod notes. Zero learning curve.
posted by filmgeek at 11:35 PM on February 1, 2006

Pod2Go might be exactly what you are looking for. Syncs lots more useful information as well such as gas prices and weather. Pod2Go has let me transform my iPod into a PDA for me in the same way I used my Palm. I only need to read. If I need to input, I write it down in my notepad and enter it into my Powerbook and sync as soon as I sit down and open my 'book, which I always have with me.
posted by jxpx777 at 8:18 AM on February 2, 2006

Thanks, all! Will check these out.
posted by You Should See the Other Guy at 10:15 AM on February 2, 2006