Re: [gentoo-user] Web application for contact management...

[Joshua Murphy <poisonbl@gmail.com>]

On Sun, Jun 14, 2009 at 4:30 PM, Steve<gentoo_sjh@shic.co.uk> wrote:
> I am looking for a web-application to manage contacts... but I'm not looking
> for "just an address book"... I guess this isn't especially gentoo, but I'd
> ideally like to run a server on my gentoo box, so I hope I can be forgiven
> for asking here.
>
> Personally, I'm absolutely awful at remembering people's names or dates...
> I'm not so bad at remembering their jobs; where I met them; their opinions
> about cuisine or cars etc. etc.  The snag I find is that I tend to forget
> the details that would be most useful to remember - while I remember all the
> trivia.  I forget when I last spoke to occasional acquaintances - and about
> details that don't mean much to me at the time... for example, about spouses
> or partners if I meet in a work environment.
>
> What I'm looking for is some software to help me to collate details about my
> occasional contacts... the idea being that if I expect to meet someone I've
> not met for a while, I've an aide memoir about whom introduced me - and the
> last time we spoke.
>
> Does anyone know of any application to do this?  An open-source
> web-application would be perfect as it would allow me to run a private
> server - hence eliminating potential security and privacy concerns - while
> making the information available independent of the kit I have on my desk.
>  Key features would include some sort of standard form to help jog my memory
> to enter details I might forget - while being flexible enough not to try and
> pigeon-hole the people I meet.
>
> Any suggestions?  Any good experiences?  I guess I could even pay for an
> application like this - if it was good... though not a lot, of course, since
> this would be a personal purchase.
>
> Ideas?

Well, most tools that handle that functionality I know of are full
fledged CRMs, which are overkill for what you're after. You might take
a look at Simple Customer though, PHP & MySQL, and seems to take a
less 'enterprise' centric approach.

http://www.simplecustomer.com/

No idea if it's any good, though.

-- 
Poison [BLX]
Joshua M. Murphy