I spent some of the afternoon brainstorming with
I think what I want is probably a wiki. Designing a LARP is all about top-down design, and cross-references. I come up with an idea, add it into the global web in various ways, and gradually flesh in the nodes with more detail. A wiki isn't perfect -- most don't seem to have strong categorization support, which would be ideal -- but it's not half-bad, and could be used for my purposes fairly easily with a little manual discipline.
I'm not dead-set on a Wiki per se, but I'm looking for something very strongly designed around hyperlinking. LARP design requires a complex web of concepts, and software that supports a web is essential.
So do folks have suggestions for a good piece of software for me? It must run fairly easily on Windows. Perl and Apache are acceptable constraints -- they'd require some setup work, but both are running on my home PC as a matter of course. Something Web-based would be nice but not mandatory -- it would make it fairly easy for me to use on my LAN. My knowledge of Wikis is very shallow at this point -- I know the concepts, but not much of the details. It must be secure, and I would strongly prefer to host it myself, so that I can be confident about security -- ASP approaches make me nervous for a project like this.
Ideas and suggestions are welcomed...