I’m looking for either free/open source software, file format, or other lightweight solution, that allows me to express dependencies between arbitrary things. It should then let me see who is dependent on what.
For instance, I want to start recording which accounts I have with different providers. I would like to map out which knows my different email addresses, phone numbers etc. If I change my phone number or email, or move house, this would let me keep track of what to update.
But that’s just an example, ideally I want to support arbitrary dependencies between anything.
I’m currently inclined to use graphviz. However, that’s very visualisation-centric. I would like a way to map out these dependencies in an arbitrary way and then generate graphs as one out of many byproducts.
Example of how this could work in my head:
phone1: +447123456789
phone2: +447987654321
email1: [email protected]
email2: [email protected]
address: 1 Example Street, UK, EX4 4PL
bank:
- email1
- phone2
- address
electricity-provider:
- address
- email2
credit-card-company:
- address
- phone1
- email1
Then, I could generate graphs with graph-dependencies email1 or graph-dependencies bank. Or, I could say find-dependencies email and that would print bank, credit-card-company.
Is anyone aware of such a tool, or solved this problem in a different way? Bonus points if it’s packaged already for Debian.
Glad that helped the decision.
As someone who does this for privacy, I just end up using a password database to make notes on each provider. It holds the relevant authentication, payment, address, etc data in the notes. I religiously update it when I create something new or have to change. Categories make tracking easier, I.e. payment method = category, same for addresses, etc.