Jotter.info
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ATTENTION! Jotter is being developed, so the text below is not a
description of what it IS now, but a 'declaration of will' - a description
of what it is going to be.
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Jotter web-system is a centralized storage of structured personal
information. Owing to Internet possibilities, your data, firstly, is always
reachable from any terminal connected to the Net (that might be useful with
address book, for example), and secondly, is opened for viewing for your
friends and family. Beside this, there are forums and message board
presented on this server.
One of the Jotter system designations is to provide you with a storage
for as much personal information as you wish to make available for any
interested person who would open http://jotter.info/yourname page. (The
idea, I must admit, is not quite new; nevertheless, I hope you'll like the
implementation.) The system provides you with a number of standard
questionnaires, where you can specify common data like phone number,
address etc. In addition you can specify arbitrary information about
yourself not covered by the system.
It's a matter of course that some sensitive pieces of personal data are
undesirable to make available to the wide public, but it makes sense to
open it to your family or, say, intimate friends. Flexible security system
of Jotter.info allows you to customize user groups and grant access rights
to protected information. You also can review access history with detailed
information on date and time, user name and duration of every session.
However, Jotter.info is not just a storage of business cards. Every
user is provided with a number of powerful services for maintaining of a
personal 'jotter':
 Journal. In functionstance it's a capital service of
Jotter web-system. Here you are provided with a simple, yet quite a
powerful mechanism for maintaining your personal diary. E-mail
functionscription lets everyone who cares to cognize about new events
in your life in the first instance; 'Discuss in forum' function provides
you with such an essential thing as a feedback from your readers, which is
so lacked if you write to the 'hollow space' (on a static page). By design,
this service is intended for maintaining a diary, although nothing
prohibits you to use it not as intended: for example, to write reviews on
books, web-sites, movies etc. Search system will not let you get lost in
the information when there is too much of it. Using security system you
can protect particular articles from being read by anyone except to chosen
users. All access sessions are logged; the log is open for analysis by
means of flexible web-interface.
Photo album. Make your photo album available online!
User-friendly navigation by date and theme (in traffic-saving thumbnails
gallery mode) makes electronical photo album more convinient than its
paper prototype. You can also search the album by comment string and
filter your photos by date range.
Forums. Jotter users can create their own forums for
discussions on questions they are insterested in. The forum link appears
on the welcome page of administrator's jotter
(http://jotter.info/username/) and on welcome pages of every user, who
posted a message to the forum within two weeks. Besides, the server
maintains a hierarchical catalog of all the forums with a possibility of
search so as to let any user easily find places of interest for him. Most
popular forums and threads are shown in 'Top 10' lists.
Forums themselves are pretty simple, but they do support all the needed
functions, which more sophisticated variants often lack: sending new
messages in a particular thread to the e-mail, search, FIDO-style quoting
(my favorite ;), highlighting new for the current user messages, basic
HTML-tags support, viewing of all messages from a particular user with
filtering by forum or forums group, human-friendly starting spaces
formatting.
Address book. I, personally, have been having a
problem of being unable to find somebody else's phone number or address on
a regular basis (probably the reason is that I just hate paper jotters ;).
For the folks like me Jotter.info provides possibility to store a list of
people and organizations along with info on their placement, phone numbers
and so on. Address book records can reference Jotter.info users, so that
in just one click you could get all the data for the selected person.
Hierarchical grouping system and search possibilities make navigation
through your address book extremely quick and easy. You can customize
which user groups are allowed to see sensitive records of your address
book with Jotter.info security system.
Files. Jotter allows its users a space to store their
files. All downloads are logged and you can review detailed statistical
reports on file downloads. Using Jotter security system you can limit
availability of sensitive files.
Message board is a very simple service, which let
users of Jotter.info to publish their text announcements. Convinient
filter 'Geography' will limit the list of announcements to the region of
interest to you. (I always wondered why this filter is missing on similar
services; actually, it's the only reason why you can see message board
here.)
Please take a look at Jotter.info rules.
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