Category Archives: New features

New Feature — Improved Search, More Accurate Results

As your wiki grows, it becomes increasingly important to be able to search and locate your information. We’ve heard from many of you that PBwiki search just wasn’t cutting it. Good news! We’ve improved PBwiki search and made it easier to find exactly what you’re looking for. Use these familiar search commands to improve yourContinue reading “New Feature — Improved Search, More Accurate Results”

The Universal Edit Button

When the web was first conceived, it was intended to be a read/write medium. Right now, wikis are the best implementation of that vision: web pages that are easy for people to edit directly from their web browser. Yesterday, we heard about the Universal Edit Button from a commenter on Get Satisfaction. When we lookedContinue reading “The Universal Edit Button”

New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki

Today, we’ve enabled a new feature on your wiki: Request Access allows users to request access to your wiki. Who would use Request Access? It’s perfect if you want to add users to your wiki, but don’t want to manage the process of figuring out their email address, adding them, and managing them. You’ll stillContinue reading “New feature: Allow users to request access to your wiki”

New feature: Email notifications look better, work better

We’re happy to announce our improved notifications emails, which have new functionality and a brand-new visual design. We previewed these earlier, and today we’re launching these to all PBwiki 2.0 wikis. (Still on PBwiki 1.0? Click here to update your 2.0 wiki before everyone else.) The new notifications include: Comment notifications. Your email notifications nowContinue reading “New feature: Email notifications look better, work better”

New PBwiki feature: Footnotes

PBwiki now supports footnotes. Whether you’re using PBwiki for research, collaborative writing, or organization, there are always lots of little details that you need to keep track of — places where sticking little snippets of text and references would be handy. Here’s a quick sample: To insert a footnote: Click Insert Plugin >> PBwiki MagicContinue reading “New PBwiki feature: Footnotes”

New email notifications for your PBwiki 2.0

When PBwiki 2.0 launched, it included lots of great new features, but one thing stayed exactly the same: the notification emails you got when somebody changed a page on your wiki. We fixed that today — here is a sneak preview of the new version of notifications. The new notifications… Let you see all changesContinue reading “New email notifications for your PBwiki 2.0”

PBwiki Preview: The improved editor in PBwiki 2.0

One of the strongest pieces of feedback we’ve gotten is to improve our editor. Good news — PBwiki 2.0 includes a new editor that makes using your wiki far easier. I’ve been using it internally and it’s fantastic. Click to enlarge What does the new editor include? Better handling of bullet points and numbered lists.Continue reading “PBwiki Preview: The improved editor in PBwiki 2.0”

PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Folders

[See our past Previews of PBwiki 2.0: Page-level access and Overview.] Organizing your wiki becomes important as you add more and more content. In PBwiki 2.0, we’ve improved navigation with better search, improved tagging, and page folders. Today, I’m going to cover page folders in PBwiki 2.0. When it comes to PBwiki organization, there areContinue reading “PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Folders”

PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Page-level permissions

[See our past Previews of PBwiki 2.0: Overview] We’ve received hundreds of notes from users who want to control access to specific pages on their wikis. We’re happy to announce that PBwiki 2.0 will include page-level access. Today we’re taking you on a preview tour of how page-level access controls will work. In PBwiki 2.0,Continue reading “PBwiki 2.0 Preview: Page-level permissions”