@sumudu Also I've never used it and don't like Office, but I believe with MailMerge, recording all that info in Excel is all you'd need — as I described. Then every time you need to generate a document, use MailMerge on a template.
I think. Last time I looked at this was about 8 years ago.
// @matigo @kdfrawg
@sumudu Technical in generating the final document, but the initial approach to recording info is quite simple: your boss wants date, one-line, and todo, but might later change everything and ask for date, full summary, no todo.
So the simplest way to keep up and always be ready is to record everything separately — in a basic table, even. Each row is one issue, each column is one piece of information your boss might ask for.
Even if you never get around to generating beautiful LaTeX documents or fluid web pages, copying and pasting bits of information into a document and printing will still be easier than re-writing the document every time.
// @matigo @kdfrawg
@sumudu Ah!
I don't know of any premade app that'll do it.
I was thinking a basic database with fields "date", "issuesummary", "detail", "todo", etc, then a query like: SELECT date, issuesummary, todo FROM issues WHERE pk=837
And that would produce a plain but totally readable plain text report.
There're also ways to link SQL and LaTeX using python if you really want to impress.
Or do it in JSON and write something to display what should be displayed prettily, in which case you should also look into a nice form for input and slowly make it into a full-blown web app. @matigo would know all about that.
// @kdfrawg
@sumudu I know Beancounter and (h)ledger are CLI expenditure apps that can also handle general inventory (by virtue of being able to handle any asset) but I don't know of any iOS or dedicated inventory apps.
// @kdfrawg
@indigo Sounds about right. When I go with family, my mum orders a salad and I get a main, and between us (and dad, who has a much bigger appetite), we have 2 mains and a salad between 3 with some leftover sides.
// @phoneboy @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg I have a feeling "small" Texan portions are still…good value for money.
// @phoneboy @indigo
@indigo A few places in London are also doing it properly, thankfully, and providing the option for smaller portions.
// @phoneboy @kdfrawg
@sumudu Sounds like you need to keep all your notes in a structured format and selectively print whatever this boss asks for.
// @kdfrawg
@sumudu @matigo I've told her look at book inventory apps which use the webcam to scan barcodes; maybe they work for other products too.
// @thedan84
Watching my cousin do a full inventory of her room in a spreadsheet preparing to move. But this inventory spans 2 cities and includes beauty products with number of new items and "using" status.
Really what she needs is a database.