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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