Tomboy is the app I would, in all seriousness, put as #1 on my list of Linux killer apps.
Oh, and it's a note-taking program with wiki-style linking between notes, among other things. It pulls thoughts right out of my brain and makes it trivial to organize and retrieve them later on.
I agree with OP. Many of these CMS have fairly limited use cases. As soon as you outgrow that you have to hack its core
Or write a module that has the functionality you're looking for. It's not that much harder than writing it for your homebrew web app, plus other people will be able to benefit from what you've developed afterwards.
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