I spent ages using other potential note apps, or personal wiki, but I had trouble running them with saved on my OneDrive to sync between my multiple devices with ease. Consider a web wiki on my desktop? That isn’t always accessible no matter where I am. The hundreds of text files I make for each new idea I get? I keep making more files, can’t find the right files with the notes I’ve made fast enough, so I make a new one, then find an old one with a better idea I used to have, and I get a little demotivated. Yeah, I tried other apps, such as Obsidian, but it didn’t feel it worked well for my use cases.

Introducing: Above Average Personal Wiki v1.0.0-beta3

The simple goal: have a way to run a markdown style wiki for myself on all my shared devices.

I got a rapid prototype with the words I dislike sharing too often, vibe coding, then spent an hour or two over several days to rewrite the dirty code and get the features to work as intended. Hence, I’ve finally gotten to the point where I can start to move all my notes from millions of files to one place.

The project structure is simple, easy method to add sections, they do use ‘/’ for sub sections. A few small adjustments are needed, like making links to other wiki pages with [[square-brackets-links]] for instance. Deleting pages isn’t built for safety though, it’s meant to be speedy to remove elements – I want the onus to be on the user to choose what they want in the wiki, or to remove from it, themselves. Hence the backups methods – you can do a backup if you want to remove something, then a week later you might want it back and you can just copy it out your personally created backup. Not yet fully planned and implemented in the app, mind you.

As you can see; on my Desktop as a backup, it can sync config for the app, I keep the wiki saved on OneDrive as well. As a note, for wiki pages, they keep a history of saves using a long DateTime for primary key alongside URL, using latest date of creation for the current version, so you can choose how long you want to keep the history of changes. The 30 days default setting since sometimes I feel I want to bring back previous versions a few days later, but it can be turned off at least.

As a side note, it will backup when opened on a Friday, and keep 2 weeks of Friday backups, but you can manually backup and any time of day that isn’t touched by the app ever with the backup button, the ‘B’ on the left bar.

Obviously, the app will be copyrighted, I’ll work out what I want to do with some legal advice to release it, eventually. As well as adjust the text and symbols as needed.

An easy-to-use editor with a preview that has some cheat sheet reminders and a scroll which I haven’t tested enough yet. Quick, easy to use, right? Yeah, I like the idea of making sure things look correct as I type my markdown.

As you can see, you can just open an item in the history of a page; and perhaps I need to adjust the Delete Page and History buttons to remove them in this state, still.

Note, with the same adjustment just mentioned; we can swap back to historic versions with ease. Hopefully it’s more understandable from what I mentioned above for Settings.

Then, a page I added after the previous images, quick to find using the Search… box.

Therefore, as a note, through starting to use it, I’m already enjoying it – my not collections are starting to slowly group together for my easy personal wiki. I would love thoughts and ideas I haven’t yet shown off that might assist with this app, and I’ll probably release it one day (Linux/Windows/, or Android remote copy just to have a way to check it from anywhere that syncs with the Desktop version; perhaps the web version, it’s under consideration).

Yes, I’m working on finishing projects first this year, but after jumping between hundreds of documents and notes, I decided I should do a small side quest. I had the idea to make this for myself in 2025, December, and realised I actually could benefit from it for finishing and releasing my many projects. Hence, it became step 1 as is, and I won’t make more than notes from now until I at least release the first one of my main projects.