Update: 2007-04-18. Just to let you know that this little web app is
quite outdated, so try it at your own risk!
webnotebook is a small CGI script whose purpose is to replace the
omnipresent stack of small pieces of paper which clutter every desk. It
was written to address our need to get rid of said pieces of paper, and in
writing it i had a few criteria in mind:
- It has to be simple. A piece of paper is something simple, so I had to
replace it with something simple, not a gargantuan PIM that takes ages to
load and in the end wants me to organize information *its* way instead of
*my* way.
- It has to be able to run on most any platform. We do a lot of
dual-booting and we want to be able to access information whether we're on
Linux or Windows.
- On the same track, it has to be able to access the same information from
anywhere. Hence I wrote it as a CGI script that can be accessed from any
web client.
Now, from my own experience, I can testify to the fact that this little
application has put an end to that endless stream of little papers on our
office. We can now store all our information there, have it centralized so
that everyone in the office has access (instead of everyone keeping a
separate stack of papers and making things difficult), and we can quickly
locate any information there.
To install the thing, you need:
- A working MySQL server (http://www.mysql.com)
- A working web server capable of running CGI scripts
- Perl 5
- The DBI/DBD perl modules. You need both the generic DBI stuff and the
mysql module.
Interested? download here.
Email me if you have anything to say about the app.