• Arabic Text Reader
• Firefox: allows you to read Arabic web pages.

Media

• TuneIn Radio
• Dood’s Music Streamer

News

• The Guardian Anywhere
• gReader

Religion (Islam)

• Quran Android
• Prayer Time PRO

Social

• Facebook for Android
• Flickr
• LinkedIn
• TweetDeck

Travel

• DB Navigator (Germany).
• MapDroyd: offline maps.

Before I go on, a warning: the wiki is there to help me become more organized so that I find time for more important things than keeping myself organized. It is a personal wiki that is intended to be used by me only. I rarely write paragraphs or even grammatical sentences. I usually write in the form of bullets and use abbreviations which only I understand.

Why MoinMoin?

• Uses a flat (text) files as its storage backend: easy to move around and maintain, no special software needs to be installed and maintained.
• Has its own webserver: no need for me to install anything.

Diary

Maintaining a diary is really simple with with MoinMoin, just create a page that contains a MonthCalendar macro and you have a monthly calendar that allows you to have entries for every day.

Every day has its page. In it, I keep track of what I did in the form of very short bullets: to do list for the day, problems, solutions, thoughts, summary of chats with other people, mini-how-tos for some tool or command… It is meant for note taking, as is intended to be read only by me, so I spend less than 10 minutes a day on it.

Maintaining a diary is helpful in many ways. First, it helps me use my memory more for processing and less for storage. It also helps me keep track of my progress and productivity.

Bibliography

Once I decide a paper is worth reading (or a higher authority makes that decision), I print it. I cannot read and understand without taking notes, and no tool allows me to do this effectively with a soft copy. I save the paper so that if I have to go back to it later, I have my notes.

I use the BibTex parser for MoinMoin. I use the alpha bibliography style, which I find to be very convenient. Once I read a paper and decide I could need to refer to it later, I added it to a special bibliography page on the wiki and use the pointer generated by BibTex (e.g. [JM08]) to refer to the paper everywhere I need to: when storing the paper in a binder sorted by BibTex pointer, in extended notes which I also keep the wiki…

Meetings

The wiki is helpful in getting organized for meetings. For every meeting, I keep notes in preparation for the meeting and notes on the actual meeting. Notes for preparation include results to discuss, questions to ask… Notes from the meeting include meeting minutes that I share with others and notes that I take for myself.

I only use pen and paper if I have to write something during a meeting, as typing is slow, not very flexible, and annoying for others. I edit the wiki for a meeting only before and after the meeting, never during.