I\'m looking for a personal wiki for knowledge management. I\'d like it to be op

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I'm looking for a personal wiki for knowledge management. I'd like it to be open source (free). I took a look through the WikiMatrix already, but the options are a little too broad for me.

Basically, I want the wiki to run portable (off USB) or run both portable and locally installed. I lack installation permission at work, so it would run portable there, but locally on my other machines.

The rub is that I'd like to set up the content to sync to dropbox (or cloud) without having to run it off of a server. This is because I'd like to keep the content confidential (ignoring dropbox security issues).

I need it to run on Windows (7+) and OSX. Portability is required for Windows OS only.

I don't care how the content is stored (flat file, RDBM) as long as I can point the wiki to access it from the cloud. I'm not sure this is even possible, running a portable wiki that points to cloud-based data. I can't use a dropbox-synced local folder.

Portable wiki (windows/OSX)
Open source (free)
Dropbox/cloud sync without running on a server

I'm not open to evernote as that's what I'm trying to replace.

Explanation / Answer

I've finally found a better solution since the time of my first answer. TiddlyWiki. Here is how it fits your requirements:

It runs on all popular browsers (example: Firefox and Chrome, ...), which have portable versions available. So that makes TiddlyWiki also portable. It also has a portable and open source desktop app TiddlyDesktop for Windows and Linux.
It is open source. Here is the github repository
Syncs to Dropbox. Quote:

With TiddlyWiki, your information is yours, and you store it where you want to - on your device, on a USB stick, in Dropbox, on your server.

What is not explicitly stated is if you can still edit your filed directly in Dropbox from the web. I will update the answer after I've tried that(*).

(*) It is possible to open the wiki file in the browser from Dropbox, but it will only save locally. That means you'll have to upload the file manually back into Dropbox. I understand that it's suboptimal, but I don't believe there are more portable solutions

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