Matt Meola
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Matt Meola ex KCØDXW |
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PDA: ProgectMy life is driven by lists; I organize everything into lists: things to do; things to get; on-going projects, with percentage complete; etc. As such, I was just delighted to find a hierarchical list program out there: progect. The word "progect" is French for the English "project". The author of the program is French, so it makes sense. Progect is an Open Source project, meaning that the source code is published along with the binary; anyone can modify the code. The projects' web page is at http://progect.sourceforge.net/. The status page is at http://www.sourceforge.net/projects/progect/ Since progect is hierarchical (although it has a flat view, too), it is nice to be able to store things like your ARES callup list in it. With D6, our callup procedures mandate that one must make sure that the callup continues; one cannot simply leave a message and call it good. If I can't get ahold of someone on my list, then I have to assume that person's callup responsibilities. Well, with progect, I can have a mechanism whereby I simply tap my own call in the list, and I can get a tree-view of all those who reside under me in the callup tree. Unfortunately, progect doesn't allow too much for structured data overall, like XML does. You just get a big text area in which to enter whatever data you like. I suppose one could just enter the phone numbers beneath each person's entry. Now, what makes progect so intriguing, and useful (besides just its own capabilities), is that it is a linkmaster-aware program -- that is, it can use the linkmaster system to include quick links to other linkmaster-aware programs. One other such program is Pilot-DB. Pilot-DB is a database program; so far, it is pretty basic, but it is improving every day. Anyway, progect and pilot-db interoperate rather well; there is more information on my pilot-db page |
