There are so many apps that I love, but there are a few that I cannot do without. Funny thing is, that the ones that are most critical to my life, where I feel the most love, don’t even reside on my macbook pro. My software soulmate lives in cyber space. It’s all about collaborative contribution. It’s all about being the life of the party and letting participants frolick around and have a great time. My software soul mate can be a little frisky…it does not like to be categorized as easily in the beginning, but after a little wrestling, my software soulmate is more compliant and organized. My software soulmate need to exercise frequently. If it gets lazy it can put on the pounds, but it only takes a little exercise to keep my software soulmate lean and trim and working in top form.

My software soulmate is our Wiki. It is awesome. I use it all day long. It allows me to collaborate with any members of our team to build proposals, gather thoughts, collaborate on research projects, create to do lists or any other form of documentations. Our Wiki has built in version control and allow us to roll back and run comparisons against any previously saved instance of a document. Our Wiki has watch lists, that allow us to monitor pages that are improtant to us. Or, if we just want to see what’s going on in our Wiki community, we just look at the “recently changed” tab to see what’s been happening.

Our Wiki is my software soulmate. What’s yours?