--__-- This pledge has been canceled on December 18th, 2015 --__--
I'm early (first?) this year with a pledge for NANY 2016, as a request by questorfla caught my attention:
One Key Popup for an Office phone directoryIt's something I've been using ever since the MS-DOS days, but because of the back-end required it was a command-line tool that peeked in the company's contacts database, where all kind of names and numbers where stored. (That company has gone defunct long ago
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I think I know what to do, based on the quote below, some previous knowledge and some requirements/wishes of my own.
A simple text document "Phone Book-like listing I can use for people in the Office (or I can see many good Personal Uses too now that Phone Directories are a thing of the past). Back in he days of Windows 95 (I think) i used to have a fantastic one that ran as a "TSR:" app back then but it has long since died as it would not run on X64 at all. I don't even remember the name but i have missed it mightily! The program would have to be one that loads in memory as I have to refer to it while doing all kinds of other things. The Old program used to work like a charm if only i knew the name, Maybe someone picked up the pieces and brought it forward to the Windows 10 world.
Something where I can hit ALT+P or similar and have a simple text listing in alphabet order of names and phone numbers that another ALT+P would close.
In my case I only have to deal with maybe 50 names but each has a Home/Office/Cell/Fax/Ofc Extension# etc and it is tiring to have to look them all up on their email signatures or deal with the MS Office Contact program just to get a phone number every time it is needed.
The "paper sheet" hard-copy version tends to "migrate south". (ie: the Round File Area) or.. maybe migrates to other desks!
I would not complain if there was room for an email address on each person as well.
-questorfla
I expect to start it this coming week, and a first proto a 'couple of days' later. (I expect questorfla to be the guinea pig for testing
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I'll most likely build it using VS2015/C# (targeted for .NET 4.0 so it'll still run on Windows XP), because of my desire to (optionally) integrate with a locally installed Outlook address-book, and VS/.NET makes that reasonable easy.
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