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On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Steve<gentoo_sjh@×××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking |
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> for "just an address book"... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd |
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> ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven |
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> for asking here. |
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> Personally, I'm absolutely awful at remembering people's names or dates... |
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> I'm not so bad at remembering their jobs; where I met them; their opinions |
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> about cuisine or cars etc. etc. The snag I find is that I tend to forget |
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> the details that would be most useful to remember - while I remember all the |
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> trivia. I forget when I last spoke to occasional acquaintances - and about |
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> details that don't mean much to me at the time... for example, about spouses |
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> or partners if I meet in a work environment. |
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> What I'm looking for is some software to help me to collate details about my |
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> occasional contacts... the idea being that if I expect to meet someone I've |
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> not met for a while, I've an aide memoir about whom introduced me - and the |
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> last time we spoke. |
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> Does anyone know of any application to do this? An open-source |
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> web-application would be perfect as it would allow me to run a private |
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> server - hence eliminating potential security and privacy concerns - while |
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> making the information available independent of the kit I have on my desk. |
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> Key features would include some sort of standard form to help jog my memory |
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> to enter details I might forget - while being flexible enough not to try and |
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> pigeon-hole the people I meet. |
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> Any suggestions? Any good experiences? I guess I could even pay for an |
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> application like this - if it was good... though not a lot, of course, since |
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> this would be a personal purchase. |
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> Ideas? |
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Well, most tools that handle that functionality I know of are full |
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fledged CRMs, which are overkill for what you're after. You might take |
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a look at Simple Customer though, PHP & MySQL, and seems to take a |
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less 'enterprise' centric approach. |
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http://www.simplecustomer.com/ |
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No idea if it's any good, though. |
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Poison [BLX] |
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Joshua M. Murphy |
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