WikiPad 1.1 has been approved for sale in the App Store. This version includes full support for the iPad. If you’ve already purchased WikiPad for iPhone, all you need to do is download the free update and you’ll be ready to go!
If you’re wondering how to keep your iPad and iPhone copies of WikiPad in sync, don’t worry. Sync support is coming soon. Stay tuned!
Blame Andy Hunt.
Back in late 2001, I attended Jerry Weinberg’s Problem Solving Leadership workshop with Andy, and during a break we got around to talking about what apps we had on our Palm V organizers. Andy said that he wished somebody would write a wiki for the Palm.
“That’s a stupid idea,” I said. “Wikis are about sharing information. What would the point of a wiki be if the information were all locked up inside a single device?”
Andy shrugged and the conversation went elsewhere. But after a few months, the idea of a personal wiki started making more and more sense to me. It would be a relatively simple Palm OS application to write. So on a plane flight in August 2002 (ironically on the way to Jerry Weinberg’s Change Shop workshop), I wrote the initial version of WikiPad for the Palm. I still have the notes I took that week on WikiPad to this day.
I used WikiPad for Palm happily for many years, first on my Palm V, and then on a couple of Palm Treos. Once Apple released the iPhone SDK, I created an iPhone version of WikiPad for my own use almost immediately. And now, after much polishing, I present the first public release of WikiPad for iPhone. Use it in good health.
[Update 4/9/2010] WikiPad for iPad is coming soon.