<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class=""><br class=""></div> I made a few edits on your fields :)<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Inserted in you suggestions, see below.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>mike<br class=""><div class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-width: 1pt; border-top-color: rgb(225, 225, 225); padding: 3pt 0in 0in;" class=""><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><b class="">From:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:eric@megageek.com" class="">eric@megageek.com</a><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><<a href="mailto:eric@megageek.com" class="">eric@megageek.com</a>><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><b class="">Sent:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Friday, April 10, 2020 5:19 PM<br class=""><b class="">To:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:Shop-talk@autox.team.net" class="">Shop-talk@autox.team.net</a><br class=""><b class="">Cc:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:alfuller194@gmail.com" class="">alfuller194@gmail.com</a><br class=""><b class="">Subject:</b><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>Re: [Shop-talk] Professional Shop Question- I'll make one<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Al writes,</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">></span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span>In other words, I you or someone else on the list comes up with an open-source or cheap solution, we can all benefit!<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">OK, I'll be happy to make one for free for anyone to use. If you remember, a while back, I offered to make a 'car maintenance log' for anyone here that wanted it. While no one bit, I did make it, I called it "BOLTRAK"</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">You put in your cars, part numbers for oil filters, oil weight and capacities, etc. Then you add a record each time you work on that vehicle. It can record time and money spent, vehicle miles the work was performed at, etc.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">I'm sure it can use some polish. It's not perfect, since I'm the only one using it, but I like it.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">NOTE- Like me, none of my software is pretty. It's 'brutish' at best, but, also like me, it gets the job done.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">If there really is an interest, I'll be happy to make a web based tool inventory application. A big advantage would be that it would be 100% off site (your site) so if the unthinkable happened, the data is safe. (of course, I can email you an excel spreadsheet anytime you want.)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">So, just email me the features you think are important, and I'll put it together if there is enough interest.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">What I think a record would need...</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Tool</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Brand</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Date purchased</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Amount</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div></blockquote>“Amount I told the wife”. This one is nice as we get older and forget what we told her, I can guarantee she wont forget.</div><div>“Serial number” not all tools have them, but the big ones do.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Where purchased (is that worth having?)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""></div></div></div></blockquote> I think it is worth having.</div><div> And I would “Warranty Expires” some big tools to have warranties.<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Photo?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Copy of receipt?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">-Where stored?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">I could also do an import if you have a spreadsheet already, just send it to me and I can import it into your tool vault.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">I could also build in an 'wife total.' Meaning that you would click on a total money spent button, but it would only show you a predefined percentage of the actual value that you set. IE, you set a 50% value. Anytime you hit the 'total spent' button, it would only show you 50% of the value. This would be to prevent domestic violences of course! 8>)</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Any other ideas?</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class="">Again, it would be web based (not platform dependant) and 100% free all the time.</span><span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class=""><br class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" class=""><br class=""><br class="">"Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory." Ralph Waldo Emerson<span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><br class="">-Who is John Galt?</span><o:p class=""></o:p></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; 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