Infolog

The Infolog desktop client is the desktop companion of Egroupware Infolog. It is a small program to keep track of your notes, todo’s and phone calls. The program normally sits hidden in your system tray. By clicking on it, your notes, todo’s and phone calls are painted on your desktop as colored sticky notes. Though it is supposed to run in conjunction with an Egroupware installation, the client is perfectly usable as a standalone desktop program. The program consists of a client and a server part. Clients can synchronize with the server which synchronizes with Egroupware Infolog. See the Egroupware website for further information. Infolog desktop client is written in Java and released under the Gnu Public License.

Features

• Keep track of your notes, phone calls and todo’s through colored sticky notes on your desktop.
• Synchronize the sticky notes with Egroupware Infolog.
• Coloring, spacing and size of sticky notes is configurable.
• When no system tray is available, the program is usable through the gui.

Requirements:

- Java Runtime Environment (> jre 1.6u11).
To synchronize with Egroupware Infolog:
- Egroupware with MySQL database (or any database usable with hibernate).
To synchronize with standalone server:
- MySQL database (or any other database usable with hibernate) with egw_infolog table, which can be created through provided SQL script.

Downloads

Downloads of binaries and code can be found on launchpad.

History:

• 25-09-2010 Version 1.0 (Client depends on server, sticky notes directly written to server)
• 15-12-2010 Version 2.0 (Client independent of server, sticky notes synchronized with server)
• 07-02-2011 Version 2.1 (Configuration through gui)
• 14-10-2011 Version 2.2 (Changes on sticky notes saved immediately)
• 03-02-2012 Version 3.0 (Communication between client and server uses Jax-ws)

 

Update 21-12-2010: The program does not behave correctly when using the OpenJDK and Compiz, see this post about it.
Update 27-04-2012: The program is capable to communicate with Egroupware version 1.8004 but does not support the default encryption type, see this post about it.