OT2

OT2 is a bonsai collection management software for *nix systems and windows that helps you to manage your trees, your pots and your pictures.

It keeps a list of your trees with their characteristics. For each tree, you can apply "events" (work done or to do, diseases, remarks and so on) which will be remembered or add pictures.

Pictures can be resized and moved to a repository while the original may be saved in another place if you wish. At any time, you can get the history of a tree which presents in one page all the characteristics of the tree and list in chronological order all the pictures or events applied to it.

Trees can be managed in batch, with progressive individualization. Very handy if you grow a lot of seedlings. It can keep a list of your pots if you wish. Free pots can be choosen when rempotting a tree, can have pictures and the history of each pot can be obtained.

All your tree data can be saved to a set of HTML pages which is both a convenience for those who maintain a web site with their trees and an insurance against loss of data, in case this software would not be maintained anymore.

The data is keeped in a standard language called SQL. It may be saved either in a file thanks to SQlite or inside a mySql server, local or distant. Again, the use of industry standards is a warranty against loss of data, which is very important in the case of a bonsai collection which is a long term project.