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Posted by tightbeam
Aug 28, 2010 at 11:00 PM

I need the ‘minimum app’ capable of doing a specific job.

I recently launched a website (DisneyDispatch.com) that has several daily updates. Each update has a category and a title. The site is only two weeks old, but already I’m having trouble remembering previous updates (which I want to remember so I can occasionally reference them in current updates).

I’d like to find software that will take in four bits of data: the title of the update, the URL of the update, and the tag used to classify the update. I should then be able to click any tag and get back a list of the updates matching that tag, sorted by most recent. Not rocket science, and I know of programs that can handle it reasonably well e.g., Personal Knowbase, MyInfo, CintaNotes, etc.

But what I’m looking for is that type of functionality delivered through a simple tabular or spreadsheet interface. No tree, no RTF, no editor. Just a big, big tag-enabled table, preferably free, preferably with minimal system requirements. Is there such a thing?

Thanks!

Posted by Dominik Holenstein
Aug 29, 2010 at 07:17 AM

hi,

maybe a silly suggestion:
- Excel
- OpenOffice Calc
- Gnumeric

Use the filter functionality or the Pivot/Pilot in Excel/Open Office.

Dominik

Posted by Alexander Deliyannis
Aug 29, 2010 at 10:07 AM

bobmclain wrote:
>I’d like to find software that will take in four
>bits of data: the title of the update, the URL of the update, and the tag used to classify
>the update. I should then be able to click any tag and get back a list of the updates

I would use Evernote, as it would take the title and URL automatically from the site posting. I count three rather than four fields in your phrase above, so I expect that the fourth one is the date of the update, which Evernote would also fill in automatically -assuming that you create the note on the same day that you posted the update. You will only have to fill in the tags manually.

>But what I’m looking for is that type of functionality delivered through a
>simple tabular or spreadsheet interface. No tree, no RTF, no editor. Just a big, big
>tag-enabled table, preferably free,

Evernote’s list view is just that; you can simply hide the note pane below. And the basic service which should be more than enough for your needs, is free.

>preferably with minimal system requirements.

This is something where Evernote is problematic. An alternative, very light on resources, would be Cintanotes. Don’t expect the above automisation though.

Posted by tightbeam
Aug 29, 2010 at 12:08 PM

Thanks for the suggestions.

I did try Excel and would prefer a spreadsheet to organize my data, but I’m hoping to find something with a subset of Excel’s functionality. Something like this:

http://sss.sourceforge.net/

Except that ‘this’ is way too barebones for my needs. I’m still looking for an app mid-way between the two.

In the meantime, I’ll check out Evernote.

Posted by Stephen Zeoli
Aug 29, 2010 at 12:28 PM

You might check out GS-Base. It’s not free, but it is only $20. It’s a database that uses a tabular view:

http://www.citadel5.com/gs-base.htm

Steve

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