On Fri, 16 Jun 2006, Thomas Haws wrote:
The recent discussion about Troop/Youth advancement tracking and this
question about journal writing software for Windows have startlingly
refreshed my appreciation that the Linux masses and the Windows masses
are truly on different planets.
Ok, ok, so I threw out an idea that I have been thinking of using.
Granted it's a little geek-heavy. I like MediaWiki cause it makes it easy to
organize my ideas in a web-centric fashion (so it doesn't matter if I'm at
home/work/wherever and want to do a journal entry)
If someone's looking for a drop-dead simple multi-user-compatible journal
system, then notepad + Windows Explorer (to make year/month directories)
should fit the bill nicely. If you want pretty formatting and pictures for
your journal entries, then substitute MS Word / wordPerfect / OpenOffice
for Notepad.
As for multi-user, well, each user account on a Windows box has ownership
over its own files, so there ya go :-).
Problem solved, no? What more is needed from a journal? :-)
I understand where you're coming from though. One shouldn't have
to install Web server + Database + scripting language for an app as simple
as a journal. One should be able to install a 150k .exe to handle the same
task. As I show above, you almost don't even need to install anything
except common office software to accomplish the task, really.
-- Dan
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