PIM/Paper tiger replacement

[Furmanek, Greg]

I have not seen such a thing.
I would be interested in using it though.
I have some programming experience but not
much database design.  

I guess PLUG users could start a project like that
if there are more people interested.

Greg

-> -----Original Message-----
-> From: rustyc@descomp.com [mailto:rustyc@descomp.com]
-> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 8:38 AM
-> To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
-> Subject: PIM/Paper tiger replacement 
-> 
-> 
-> 
-> My wife found a nifty(*) (microDollar (#)) program for helping keep
-> track of stuff, especially paper.  But I've got 2 problems with it:
-> 
-> 1 - it runs on the dark side
-> 2 - it costs $80, and it seems to me that its really just a nice
-> 	front end to a database
-> 3 (%) - it forces you to decide, ahead of time, the maximum number of
-> 	items in each location you will keep (@)
-> 
-> So, I went to freshmeat and google and looked for stuff, but
-> my search heuristics failed me this time and I came up empty.
-> 
-> 
-> 'Requirements' (and wants) are:
-> 
-> 1 - runs on linux
-> 2 - allows searching on any text entered (in the description, 
-> 	title, etc fields)
-> 3 - would be nice if it (the data) would be accessible using 
-> 	secure http, but its not required that I be able to
-> 	MODIFY it that way (but it would be very nice)
-> 4 - does not need me to spend hours writing code (i.e. saying
-> 	"just write your own interface to mySQL" won't cut it ;-)
-> 5 - allows specification of at least the following info:
-> 	location
-> 	ISBN number, if appropriate (can you tell I'm thinking of
-> 		books also ;-)
-> 	Title
-> 	Description
-> 	author?
-> 	(I probably want most fields to be optional also)
-> 6 - probably want password access to the info...
-> 7 - can limit search by location.  (May want location broken into
-> 	a heirarchy, like 'at home/in office/drawer 3', with 
-> 	'wildcarding' allowed for any portion of the heirarchy)
-> 8 - does not impose arbitrary fixed limits on things, 
-> 	like number of items at a location.
-> 
-> (I've probably forgotten the most important thing ;-)
-> 
-> So, does anyone know of anything like this that I could use? (and
-> where to get it, of course ;-)
-> 
-> Does anyone want to write it?  ;-) / 2
-> 
-> (and its probably not called a PIM, is it?)
-> 
-> rc
-> 
-> 
-> notes:
-> 
-> (*) - for some value of 'nifty'
-> (#) - aka m$, u$, or Micro$oft
-> (%) - yup, you are right - I cannot count.  ;-)
-> (@) - for goodness sakes, this is JUST a stupid database app -
-> 	why in the world do we need to set a maximum number
-> 	of items in a location?????
-> 
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