[kwlug-disc] Personal Database Software

[Chris Irwin]

I've come across the need for software that I think used to be common, 
but seems to have stagnated (i.e., not survived the jump to multi-device 
or multi-users): Personal Database Software.

Baseically like Microsoft Access, or LibreOffice Base: Define a Table 
(i.e.  "Albums"), define fields/layout a form ("Title", "Artist", etc), 
and then you can start adding entries, searching, browsing, etc. Easy 
enough for a user without having to know SQL, or any scripting 
languages.

If it was just me, I could theoretically just use LibreOffice Base (or 
postgres directly, I guess).  However, that doesn't really work well in 
either the multi-device world (look things up from my phone while away 
from home), or multi-user world (share tables with other people)

It goes without saying that there's a *strong* preference for 
self-hosted open source solutions.

I figured there'd be some niche project that I just haven't come across, 
but I'm really not finding anything.


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Chris Irwin

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