Collecting humour: need a program. Ideas?

[Fatherof3]

My computer was stolen together with a backup drive which I left in that night.
8,000 jokes (and 10 years) are gone. I'll start all over again.

Was using SquareNotes
Pro: small, could assign 99 key-words to a note.
Con: old, DOS based, not nice GUI, searching could have been better.

There must be something better out there nowdays...

 

[GigaCluster]

If each joke has a title, maybe where you first heard it, maybe a rating, a great (reliable, robust, scalable) solution would be a database like MySQL. You would then be able to access it with any front-end and also on the Internet. Also, backing it up would then be a piece of cake.

A downside would be the initial setup of the database (tables and fields).

 

[Lint21]

Yup, a full-fledged database like MySQL would work. You could also just build a db in Access.

Or, you could just poke around for free-ish utilities at www.download.com

 

[Fatherof3]

Thanks guys
Two years ago I downloaded MySQL and tried to work it through
but then my free time dissapeard and I left it at that.
I'll have a second go.
(unless of course I see something nice for braindead, I might go for it

 

[Armitage]

Along these lines ... I've been wanting something like this for years to organize my notes, references, etc.
Basically, I want something to store all those things where you say "I saw something about this a few weeks ago..." and be able to pull it up via keywords, object type, date range, referring person, etc.
Something where I could store my own notes, web-pages (copies or links), pdf, images, scans of magazine & newspaper articles, business cards, etc. The program would automagically launch the right viewer.
The database would store the location in the filesystem, instead of the actual object.
I haven't found it so far. Someday I'll build it when I find the time.

Oh yea ... it will have to have a web interface also, so I can get at it from anywhere with a connection

And maybe some sort of rating system!

Basically, I want a Google for my life