====== About Zim ======

**Zim** is a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WYSIWYG|WYSIWYG]] text editor written in Gtk2-Perl It aims to bring the concept of a wiki to your desktop. Every page is saved as a text file with wiki markup. Pages can contain links to other pages, and are saved automatically. Creating a new page is as easy as linking to a non-existing page. This tool is intended to keep track of TODO lists or to serve as a personal scratch book.

A "//desktop wiki//" means that we try to capture the idea of a wiki, not as a webpage but as a collection of files on your local file system that can be edited with a GUI application. The main focus is a kind of personal wiki that serves for all kind of notes: todo-lists, addresses, brainstorm ideas etc.

But we want to go further then just a wiki filled with random content. It should also be possible to use you random notes as the basis for more structured data: articles, presentations etc. **Zim** will not include tools to layout a presentation or something like that, you should use your office suite of choice for that, but it should be a tool that can deliver all the content for a presentation in a form that only needs a template and some layout before usage. Therefor features normally not found in wikis will be added.

See [[Features]] for a more detailed list of what **zim** can do.

* The Webpage for **zim** is: http://zoidberg.student.utwente.nl/zim
* Please mail any bug reports etc. to pardus@cpan.org

==== Copyright ====

**Zim**  is Copyrighted © 2005 by [[pardus@cpan.org|Jaap G Karssenberg]]. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl.

Thus **Zim** may be copied only under the terms of either the [[http://www.perl.com/pub/a/language/misc/Artistic.html|Artistic License]] or the [[http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html|General Public License]].

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
