Date: Mon, 30 Aug 2004 13:15:00 -0400 From: Louis LeBlanc <FreeBSD@keyslapper.org> To: FreeBSD Questions <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: slightly OT - journal or project tracking app query Message-ID: <20040830171500.GA45984@keyslapper.org>
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Hey all. I have a slightly OT question here. Now, I'm not trying to start a holy war, and you all know as well as I do that's exactly what happens when editor/wm/OS questions of this type arise, but I'd really be interested in what the *BSD community uses in this case. As many of you know, it's very easy to get a complex system set up and then promptly forget how you did it. Many people solve this problem by an unorthodox method known as "Documentation". Many of the people I've come behind have been woefully unfamiliar with this practice, and I'm the one left with the shovel. Another application of this obscure practice is tracking the progress of a project. Particularly the analysis of an elusive performance or stability problem. I've seen what avoiding such tracking can do - different people will rediscover the same bit of data again and again, never realizing they already know about it. Well, I've been looking for a decent journaling app, and can't find anything in the ports flagged by the word "journal". I don't need a big fancy project application, but something that can be easily paged or collated by day or project would be fantastic. In a perfect world, said app would work with an external editor, or use Vim-ish key bindings. Failing the existence of such an application, I'll have to devise my own organizational method and just go with vim until I can work something useful out. What does the FreeBSD community use? Thanks Lou -- Louis LeBlanc FreeBSD@keyslapper.org Fully Funded Hobbyist, KeySlapper Extrordinaire :) http://www.keyslapper.org ԿԬ drug, n: A substance that, injected into a rat, produces a scientific paper.
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