CONTENTS







CHAPTER 1       KON-TUIT OVERVIEW





CHAPTER 2       FEATURES



 
























                                    CHAPTER 1



                                KON-TUIT OVERVIEW







             Kon-Tuit is a chain of thought preserver.   It  is  *NOT*  a

        scheduler,  not  a pim (well, maybe...  ;-) ).  It is to keep the

        chain of thought alive that one has in his head at the time  that

        you  have to switch to something else, and it may happen that you

        cannot get back to it.  It has also mutated to something that can

        tell me roughly what I need to be working on that day.



             Kon-Tuit was born  out  of  the  need  to  not  only  manage

        multiple  projects,  but keep from forgetting projects that I was

        working on, and / or the details of the state of the project when

        I  put it down for several months, and then had to go back to it,

        usually in double-quick time.



             The design philosophy is that I needed to  have  it  simple,

        durable,  and dependable.  Since I'd read the book Kon-Tiki about

        Thor Heyerdahl's balsa raft, the idea of a simple balsa raft of a

        train of thought preserver took hold.  It would hold the state of

        the project so I could get back to it quickly and keep  track  of

        the ones I kept forgetting to get back to!!



             basically, my train of thought jumps the track when i  shift

        projects..   I  used to be able to keep it all in my head, but no

        longer due to age and number and complexity of projects, and also

        multiple os's to put them all on.



             My only whine about this project is that I'd wanted it to be

        open source in Perl, but due to need for it, it's in MSaccess for

        now.



             so, this is intended to do:

             1.  



                      keep the details of what i'm thinking  so  i  don't

                 forget, time stamping it all.

             2.  



                      cover my butt keeping the changes in  priority  and

                 deadlines...


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             3.  



                      A report in  the  near  future  will  evaluate  the

                 priorities,   deadlines,  and  elapsed  time  since  I'd

                 clocked in on the last action done  on  a  project,  and

                 rank them in order of priority that day..



             Distributions:Kon-Tuit distribution., a zipped MSAccess 2000

        database

























                                    CHAPTER 2



                                    FEATURES









                       Kon-Tuit database built-in features





                1.  



                         Auto-timestamping of all entries.

                2.  



                         Automatic  updating  of   priority   and

                    deadlines in the main database table from the

                    detail record on changes.



                                      Setup



                1.  



                         Download the mdb.

                2.  



                         Virus scan it.

                3.  



                         Read Documentation.

                4.  



                         Email Jim for the inevitable questions..

                    I'll add the answers into the documentation.





 
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