On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 03:05:54PM +0000, James Elsey wrote:
2010/1/8 Chris G cl@isbd.net:
Yes, I know that's a bit of a broad requirement! :-)
I'm after an application of some sort that will help me keep track of what I suppose is a project (buying a boat in France). I'm open to any sort of idea really as, at the moment, I'm a bit lost as to how to do it.
Straightforward calendar applications don't quite cut it as I want it to be a bit more 'textful' than that, I also want easy ways to link to web pages and other information. I might be persuaded that something like Sunbird/Lightning or evolution is the way to go though. Can one put links into sunbird entries?
A blog *might* do what I want but I need easy ways to search and/or browse through entries by date and a way to remind myself to do things. I don't think blogs usually allow one to create future entries and or planning sections do they?
I suppose a project planning utility might be what I'm after but they often seem a bit too much oriented towards large multi-person projects. I will go and do some looking on this front though as it isn't a way I've thought of going before.
Could you do something with google docs/calendar? At least its web based and all secure behind your google login. Could always use the blogger which google own too
It's possible, I don't know what the Google apps look like really, I'll go and have a play (I do already have a Google ID).
One thing I've realised that I really *DO* want is a way to present future events which isn't day/week/month based. What I want is a simple list of events, if there are ten events in the next two days I will see a list of ten lines, if there are ten events in the next year I will see a list of ten lines. I don't really care how far ahead or how far apart the events are, I just want to see what the next 'n' things I have to do are.
Thinking a little further my ideal would be a web page with an entry (one or two lines) for each event with a date/time and a short description. Clicking on the entry would take me to a page dedicated to that even with links, more details, etc.
It could be built simply as HTML but it would be nice to have some facilities for raising alarms etc.