Poop 2

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Poop v2.1 (0.3 Mb)

The original Poop (Paul's Oddly-named Organiser Program) was a simple contact list program I wrote years ago for a friend (the aforementioned Paul). I've long since lost the source code for Poop, but when I recently decided to write an address book that would allow me to store the data on my USB flash drive while still working smoothly if I didn't have the drive handy, I thought it fitting that it be known as the spiritual successor to Poop.

Poop 2 stores the contact details in an XML file which can be located in any location desired (in my case on my USB flash drive). Whenever the data is saved Poop 2 also takes a local copy of the data that can then be accessed (in read-only mode to avoid changing the data in more than one location) if the "real" data isn't available (ie. if I've left my USB flash drive at home).

Poop 2 allows you to arrange your contacts into categories and for each contact stores:

Name
Birthday
Anniversary
Gender
Family - this allows you to specify parents, siblings, spouses and children and their birthdays
Home address, phone, fax and mobile numbers
Two home e-mail addresses
Two home web site addresses
Instant Messenger Details - ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM and Yahoo Messenger contact details
Job details
Work address, phone, fax pager, and mobile numbers
Two work e-mail addresses
Two work web site addresses
Notes

Some other features of Poop 2 are:

Data is stored as XML - So if you've got your USB flash drive, but don't have access to a PC that can run Poop 2, you can still read your data.
Import from CSV - Contact lists can be imported from CSV files in the format produced by Outlook and Outlook Express.
Birthday and Anniversary Reminders - The first time Poop 2 is started on each day it will remind you of any upcoming birthdays or anniversaries, or any that you have missed since you last ran the program.

Requirements

PC with Windows 98, Me, 2000 or XP

And enough memory to run Windows efficiently.

Microsoft .Net Framework 1.1

The .Net Framework 1.1 is required to run this program.

Version History

v2.1, 30 March 2005

Fixed a bug which meant that if someone didn't have a birthday or anniversary set the program assumed that they fell on the 1st of January. So each year, when January the 1st came around it would inform you that they had all just had birthdays or anniversaries.

v2.0, 25 March 2005

Initial release.