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A little personal database for media libraries and similar.
It started with a simple problem: keeping a list of favorite webcomics, each with the same information about it, such as category, title, link, description, tags and so on. In other words, a table. For a while it existed as a spreadsheet, but that was hard to update, for several reasons. A dedicated user interface was needed, but that took some time to figure out.
Screenshot of Cozy Catalog (76K)
Cozy Catalog is a little personal database, mainly for media libraries and the like. It's plain and doesn't do anything special except for making it easier to locate and update information. Its data files can also be opened with pretty much any office suite or programming language, to avoid lock-in. Main features:
The user interface should be fairly obvious.
Cozy Catalog is open source under the MIT license. See source code:
As of 26 January 2023, the code has been used in production for a week or two without issues. Please back up your data.
Running Cozy Catalog from source requires Tcl/Tk 8.5 or newer, with Tcllib. Both are available on most Linux distributions, or else from the tcl-lang.org website:
Recommended screen resolution: 1024x768.
Cozy Catalog is based on knowledge gained from TkDocs.com; it borrows much from previous projects:
Scrunch Edit TT, a two-pane outliner for Markdown and org files
ToyEd, a toy text editor in Tcl/Tk for educational purposes
Mirrors:
You can usually find me on IRC:
or else on Mastodon:
Would love to hear from you.
