One of the things I fret about it keeping good information about the books I'm writing up-to-date. I've felt for the past few months that if I could get a good-looking wiki solution, I'd do better at the managing-my-books thing. I could log right in and edit the pages, add notes, talking about changes or updates or whatnot. And I'm loving wiki tools right now, for pretty much the same reason that I hate HTML and FTP.
Enter BackPack (http://www.backpackit.com) a very cool service that I've just stumbled upon and will probably start paying real money for here in a little while. What BackPack does is enable you to selectively make wiki pages public or private, using them for a variety of reasons. Already I've got a page for my current to-do list, one for a film festival subcommitee that I'm a part of, one for advertising sales at our newspaper and one where I'm gathering info about my books. That's the only purely public page in my "backpack" -- the others are either my-eyes-only or designed for small workgroups, which can be automatically invited by e-mail and managed by the application.
Let me put it this way -- this is flickr, or Blogger, or MeetUp in terms of the level of Really Good Web Idea that Backpack represents.
I'm not done with my book page(s) -- and knowing me, it could languish a bit now that I've started -- but so far I'm almost giddy over the potential that my Backpack offers. So far. We'll see if that continues...it's up to me, I suppose.
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