Quick contact DB app?

[Shawn Rutledge]

See www.nettebook.org:8080

This is web-based.  I wrote it using PHP and PostgreSQL, use it myself
and occasionally add features (however that tarball on the web site is
old, I need to make a new one some day).  The trouble with KDE apps is
maybe you can only use them from one computer, unless it's client-server
or you use VNC or something.  But I use nettebook at work, at home, at
the library, etc... Of course it should be possible to build an
application client in addition to the web client. When I get my
metawidget framework developed more, I intend to do that.

You can take notes on a conversation.  Relationships between people,
places, things and contact methods are all unlimited one-to-many
relationships, unlike in most lightweight PIM tools.  There is a
mailmerge feature, and I recently added a quick print-an-envelope link
(uses the database to fill in fields in a Postscript template and dumps
it to the printer).

I should make a debian package some day but don't have any experience
with that yet.

On Wed, Apr 10, 2002 at 11:08:59PM -0700, Alan Dayley wrote:
> I know I will get several possible solutions to this question, but that is 
> what I am after and is the joy of Linux/open source/free software!
> 
> I want to use or create a contact database with the usual contact info but 
> also contact records containing dates and times of last contact, comments on 
> the contact, etc.  It must already exist somewhere or be easy to create with 
> the right tool.  In my former life as a other OS app developer, I know 
> exactly what tools I would use but I have not done this in Linux before.
> 
> Is there an app that does this sort of thing well?
> Or
> What tools would I use to build this app?  GNUe would probably be overkill 
> but maybe it can scale really small.  Kylix might work if I could bring 
> myself to use Pascal (gack!).
> 
> -General requirements: Single user, single workstation, Linux, KDE, nothing 
> fancy, just a basic GUI and simple reporting capability perhaps.

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