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Keeping track of software license/serial keys
Perry Mowbray:
As I have also said elsewhere, anyone who wants to be a Software Hero of the People should write a notetaking file conversion program :) Something of the sort should be possible, no doubt with limitations.-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 06:07 AM)
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If all notetaking programmes agreed to export to xml it'd be relatively simple to transform that into an import xml file for a different notetaking programme.
KeePass seems to me a good and useful tool, as long as you accept that it's narrowly-focussed
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Just had a look at KeePass and it does infact look excellent: very similar to PINs (my current standard). PINs has a better Auto-Text entry and URL definition, but KeePass could produce better trees (deep).
rjbull:
If all notetaking programmes agreed to export to xml it'd be relatively simple to transform that into an import xml file for a different notetaking programme.
-pmowbray (April 06, 2006, 07:13 AM)
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Some of them use XML as their native format, e.g. Treeline and ShadowPlan, though the latter's more focussed on Palms.
Two things. One, as I understand it, XML may be an open format, but it isn't necessarily easy to work with. You rapidly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms. Two, the original post wanted a way to store registration information, so any format should be encrypted, which would mean it wasn't true XML any longer (OK, the app should be able to export in a clear format, or at least to have encryption removed).
Just had a look at KeePass and it does infact look excellent: very similar to PINs (my current standard). PINs has a better Auto-Text entry and URL definition, but KeePass could produce better trees (deep).
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How much better auto-text? Also, how complex does one really need? Is a RoboForm fan going to jump in here?
Perry Mowbray:
If all notetaking programmes agreed to export to xml it'd be relatively simple to transform that into an import xml file for a different notetaking programme.
-pmowbray (April 06, 2006, 07:13 AM)
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Two things. One, as I understand it, XML may be an open format, but it isn't necessarily easy to work with. You rapidly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms.-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 08:16 AM)
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Sure, but the XSLT would be specific and transform one format to the other format. User doesn't need to see the xml.
Two, the original post wanted a way to store registration information, so any format should be encrypted, which would mean it wasn't true XML any longer (OK, the app should be able to export in a clear format, or at least to have encryption removed).-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 08:16 AM)
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That's right: the Apps database would be in its original (encrypted) format and it would only export the data as XML.
Just had a look at KeePass and it does infact look excellent: very similar to PINs (my current standard). PINs has a better Auto-Text entry and URL definition, but KeePass could produce better trees (deep).
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How much better auto-text? Also, how complex does one really need? Is a RoboForm fan going to jump in here?-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 08:16 AM)
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It's got it's own field (not part of notes) and has a pop-up to insert the various variables and constants for you (means I don't have to remember what's what). So not more complex, just easier to use. :)
Similarly the URL is in its own field in PINs not part of the notes as in KeePass.
BUT I really liked the ability in KeePass to have n-Deep Trees!! ...and chose your own icons!!
rjbull:
My license keys are all stored in fsekrit. I keep a copy on my computer, my palm's SD card, my usb drive and a copy on my ftp server.
-allen (March 19, 2006, 01:06 PM)
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Keeping multiple copies is a *** GOOD *** idea: encryption is obviously vital: it helps if data files are small: and it's always nice if it's free. So, people might like to consider MemPad by Horst Schaeffer
Direct link: http://home.mnet-online.de/horst.muc/win/mempad.zip
Don't go straight for 2.52 beta, may be some problems, go for 2.51 which is solid. MemPad is not a full tree-form notetaking software, it just looks and feels like it. It's very small, very fast, completely free, and encrypted. My list of about 300 nodes is about 100K.
rjbull:
pmowbray,
Two things. One, as I understand it, XML may be an open format, but it isn't necessarily easy to work with. You rapidly run into an alphabet soup of acronyms.-rjbull (April 06, 2006, 08:16 AM)
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Sure, but the XSLT would be specific and transform one format to the other format. User doesn't need to see the xml.
-pmowbray (April 06, 2006, 08:35 AM)
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But I don't know what an XSLT is... see what I mean about alphabet soup? I wouldn't expect to have the know-how to do the conversions myself.
Oh, just remembered; the author of Treeline says it can be used as a "crude" (his word) XML editor, if that's any use to anyone.
It's got it's own field (not part of notes) and has a pop-up to insert the various variables and constants for you
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So, simply more powerful, then. I think I very briefly looked at PINS but dumped it. Probably didn't look hard enough, and came to KeePass after I'd more or less forgotten the others...
So not more complex, just easier to use. :)
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I didn't make that clear, again. I was wondering aloud how complex the tasks of logging in would/should actually be, which is some of what dictates how complex the program needs to be to match.
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