On Friday 09 March 2001 07:37 am, you wrote:
> 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?)
>
Rusty,
Have you looked at the bibliography database in StarOffice 5.2??
It may fit your needs especially it you can use StarBasic to tie it to the
PIM there.
--
Ken Thompson
Electrocom Computer Services
Payette, Idaho 83661
(208) 642-11701
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