Software for managing projects, clients, notes ...

This probably could go in some other forum, but this seems like most logical place to me.

As I'm getting more and more into freelancing I'm geting lost. For instance one old customer asked me to repear some script I did for him. It stoped sending emails after Cpanel was updated (yeah blocks even localhost from using sendmail).

While I remotely recalled who is he, and what I worked on, that's about all I could remember. Spent quite some time to find the source code of the script on my HD ...

So if someone knows some good tool, preferably free or with test period that can be used to manage clients, projects, notes ... etc.

Desktop based preferably (Windows), but if someone also knows for some online (Web) tool that can be used for that it would be great. Altho in that case it would make sence that it has some sort of admin for the customer also. Something that could be used to leave comments on the ongoing project, or requests for features ...etc.

Thanks.

Since you are a web programmer, I am going to go out on a limb and assume *cringe* that you know PHP - I am biased I know ;-)

On SourceForge there are several packages that run on PHP. Unfortunately, I was not able to find a standalone Windows application. The only one that I know of is MS Project, but that of course costs money.

SourceForge has a few PHP solutions: eGroupWare (popular), more.groupware just to name two. Install a simple web server with PHP and MySQL and voila.

Tucows has a category on their site dedicated to this type of software. I think you will have better luck there:
http://www.tucows.com/project95_pop.html

No I dont quite know PHP, I use something *MUCH* better, called Perl
Just kidding of course ... But I realy know only little PHP, and alot Perl ...

You obviosly havent been to Serbia. For $2 you can buy Windows, DivX Movies, Office, Games, whatever CD's on the street. The bad thing about it, is that it's also bad for me as a programmer. Luckely goverment started working on it.

Altho they seem to have forgoten to raise the pay checks (ussual monthly wage is ~ $200 - $300), so I dont know who will (be able to) buy the original CD's ...

Thanks for the link. I will check it out.

*shudders* Perl is great. I haven't had an easy time learning it though.

? Perl and PHP are quite similar; I rather invision PHP as inline Perl myself

True, they are very similar. I don't know what my trip is lol. It seems that string manipulation always requires regex in Perl, whereas in PHP there are some functions that help out a lot.