Personal Flashlight Database

[Saaby]

If you want to do barcodes get a QCat (How many here already have one??) and hack it...then you can install a little driver that interpets code from the QCat and turns it into regular numbers, use this with any Excel sheet or cheap/free POS software (There are probably free onces out there that are good enough for flashlight tracking)

Now, I know that there is software out there for people to track their DVD collection...perhaps that would suffice as well, I'll try to find it and edit this post to have a link to it.

 

[brightnorm]

I have several dozen lights whose specs sit comfortably in a single primitive, elementary, cerebrally challenged WORD file. With its instant access and easy updates, it's as simple as can be and works perfectly for my relatively small collection.

If I had a huge collection and wanted to cross reference hundreds if not thousands of details than I could see the utility of some of the programs mentioned here.

I also have a collection of some 500 DVD's, arranged alphabetically on my shelves with most necessary details more or less firmly embedded in my Flashaholic brain.

Brightnorm

 

[**DONOTDELETE**]

OK, this isn't a database, but here's how I keep track of the battery requirements of all my stuff.

I've created a text data file with all of my lights or other battery-powered devices, one per line. Each line has three fields: name, type, and batteries. Each field is surrounded by double quotes, and separated by a comma.

E.g.:

A short Perl script totals up the batteries I need to purchase at refueling time: