I need to record information about what my cat eats and does, as she might have a food allergy and I need to track down what it is.

So I am after some kind of a user friendly locally hosted database (maybe via some kind of app), preferably Linux friendly.

It would be nice if it had similar relationships to the added image, some kind of relational DB that I can fill with data. But essentially I need to have a bunch of lookup tables to return some data specific to difference events.

Its a bit of a pain (and takes time) to have to write an entire webapp to manage all this from scratch, that’s why I am looking for some kind of user friendly GUI way to do it. Surely there must be some kind of relational database managing “application” that lets you set up some lookup tables and enter data in a nice and easy GUI way to do it? sqllitebrowser doesn’t count as it doesn’t handle linked tables in a nice way (would be nice if its friendly for my wife to use) :)

Cheers!

  • @[email protected]
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    41 month ago

    It’s already been recommended, but I think Grist or a lowcode/nocode thing like baserow or nocodb might work for you.

    Also, I’d love to see what you come up with! My cats are picky eaters and I’ve been wanting to keep track of what wet food they like or not.

    • @OwlPasteOP
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      11 month ago

      That’s an interesting point, I decided to carry on with the webapp route, but it would be easy to make it “multi-cat” actually. What I really wanted was a lightweight calendar but I couldn’t find one that had pre-canned events or had too many other things I didn’t want.