From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Wes Hardaker Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:05:07 -0700 Message-ID: <0l7h3yff7g.fsf@wjh.hardakers.net> References: <8762jj1g81.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <87obxbt78o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.92]:50403) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHIWv-0001vf-5i for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:05:14 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHIWt-0000HH-1m for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:05:13 -0400 Received: from mail.hardakers.net ([168.150.236.43]:49119) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1RHIWs-00008A-Ou for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Oct 2011 13:05:11 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87obxbt78o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> (Eric Abrahamsen's message of "Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:11 +0800") List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Eric Abrahamsen Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org >>>>> On Fri, 21 Oct 2011 10:21:11 +0800, Eric Abrahamsen said: EA> As Rasmus mentioned, if you use BBDB you should get version 3, it's EA> significantly better than the previous version. There's a slow movement EA> towards better import/export functions, which I think has been one of EA> the major gripes about BBDB in the past (there are probably more I'm not EA> aware of). BBDB is great, though I haven't switched to BBDB3 yet because of incompatible changes I haven't looked into yet. I actually would like to use org-contacts because I think the editable form is significantly nicer than bbdb's. BBDB is great, but you can't go mess with the database easily. EG, with BBDB if one area gets a new area code you can't go quickly search/replace for all records replacing 111 with 222. With org-contacts it's a simple search/replace edit. Note I wrote a bbdb to org-contacts converter: http://www.hardakers.net/code/bbdb-to-org-contacts/ But what I really want is a bi-directional sync, of course... -- Wes Hardaker My Pictures: http://capturedonearth.com/ My Thoughts: http://pontifications.hardakers.net/