This is the MyWiki user manual.

A video explaining the main features of MyWiki is available at www.mywikiapp.com.

To view close-ups of the thumbnail images simply tap on them. A full-size version will appear in the image viewer.

An article can be created in multiple ways. First of all, you can create an article by creating a link inside a paragraph and simply tapping it. The second way is to open search and entering the desired article title in the search field.

If the article does not already exist, the 'Create article' option will appear as the top most search result.

Note: To tag an article as 'favorite' press the star icon on the top right. Quickly find all favorite articles by pressing the star button in search.

An article consists of multiple paragraphs. New paragraphs can be added to an article by tapping the 'Add a paragraph here' button which is always placed placed below all other paragraphs.


You can also add a paragraph above an existing paragraph by engaging the edit mode and pressing 'Add a paragraph here'.

The 'edit mode' is activated by pressing the 'Edit' button in the top right corner. When engaged the button will glow orange and the paragraph edit functionality will become available. Go ahead and try it now.

Find your articles quickly using search by tapping the looking glass in the right bottom corner. Search has two modes which can be selected in the top right corner. The first, and default mode, allows to you search articles and paragraphs by keywords. The second shows an alphabetical listing of all articles. Additionally, it can order all articles on the date they where edited last.

When editing a paragraph you can create links by selecting the desired text and pressing the link icon. The text will then be enclosed in brackets. For example: [[example link]] is a link.

Pressing the link button without any text selected will open the search dialog and allows you to quickly find and add existing links to your paragraph

It is also possible to create links with an alternative title. For example:
[[welcome to mywiki]here] will create a link that points to here

Link to a paragraph by using the following notation [[User manual#Exporting]]. This will create a link (User manual) to the 'Exporting' paragraph in the 'User manual' article. These links can also be created quickly by using the insert link functionality.

Links to empty articles are marked gray. For example: empty article does not contain any paragraphs. Links that are marked blue are links to articles that have paragraphs. For example: the welcome to mywiki article. Orange links point to email adresses or external websites such as wikipedia.com. These links are created automatically by MyWiki and will open in MyWiki's internal web browser.

Applying formatting to text works in mostly the the same way as creating links. You can add bold or italic formatting to selected text. Bulleted items can be created by selecting multiple lines of text and pressing the bullet formatting button. For example:


Escaping codes & characters

If you need to input code snippets (like html or Java) you can do so by surrounding the snippet with braces. For example: {{<p>Hello world</p>}} will become:

<p>Hello world</p>

To remove formatting or links from a text, select it, and press the corresponding formatting icon. For example: select a link (including the surrounding double brackets) and press the link icon from the formatting toolbar.


If you want to remove all formatting types from a text, select the whole text and press the brush button. The brush button will clear any formatting from a selected text.

Add images by pressing the camera icon in the formatting toolbar.
Add an existing image from the library or capture a new one with the built-in camera.

When you tap on an image in a paragraph the full scale image will appear in the image viewer. You can close the image viewer by tapping on it and pressing the close button.

The settings screen provides the following functionality:


There can be only one homepage. If no article is set as homepage, the home button will be disabled.

In the reordering section, paragraphs that have no title are indicated with "…"

Your wiki can be exported as a mini html site. Use the export functionality to create this site, archive it as a zip file and sending it attached to an email. You can then access your data using your web browser. As these exports tend to be quite large in size, the option 'include images' is provided. Not including images can drastically reduce the file size of the export.

It is also possible to only export a selected set of articles. By default all articles are marked for export.

Browser compatibility

The generated mini-site is best viewed in a CSS3 compatible browser like recent versions of Firefox, Safari or Chrome. Internet Explorer does work though it is not supported. When using IE be sure to allow 'scripting and activex content'.