From: Nick Dokos <nicholas.dokos@hp.com>
To: Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
Subject: Re: BBDB(3) or org-contacts
Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:12 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <10009.1357762332@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> of "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:14:43 +0100." <876237slcc.wl%n142857@gmail.com>
Daniel Clemente <n142857@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> El Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:03:24 +0100 Gour va escriure:
> > of bbdb-to-org-contacts converter wrote: "Once I point org-contacts at
> > my newly generated file containing 831 records it make org-contacts
> > really really slow down. I wouldn't care about the normal record
> > searching process for just looking something up, but it makes loading a
> > message in gnus unusable (5 second delay per message)."
> >
>
> I use org-contacts with Wanderlust and I see it makes contact completion very slow (5 seconds for each keypress, and that's with only 200 contacts).
> Therefore I use its infrastructre (because I like it) but I don't run its code. I'll explain myself:
>
> I keep this structure in an .org file:
>
> ** John von Neumann :mathematic:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL: john@neumann.com
> :END:
> - some info
>
>
> I use tags, I store e-mails, and I can write any infos, subsections, appointments, tasks, etc. which I want; even clock in.
> If I want to search for a contact, I simply open that buffer and use C-s or do a tags search.
> You can use org-capture to fill that file.
>
>
> I strongly prefer this system over BBDB.
>
I use bbdb3 for my (admittedly, very simple) needs, but it can be
augmented with this kind of information fairly easily: "all problems in
computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (Alan
Perlis).
Bind some key to org-open-at-point-global. Add another field to the
bbdb entry with a link to get you to the org-contacts entry. You can
even get a backlink to go from the org-contacts entry to the bbdb entry.
For example:
I have F7 bound to a sparse keymap for all things org, so I do
(define-key f7-keymap "o" 'org-open-at-point-global)
to bind org-open-at-point-global to "F7 o".
I add a "link" entry to the bbdb record:
,----
| Daniel Clemente
| mail: n142857@gmail.com
| link: [[file:~/lib/org/crm.org::Daniel Clemente]]
`----
I can then follow the link with ``F7 o'' - if the headline does not
exist, it creates it and then I can modify it to make into a bbdb link:
,----
| * [[bbdb:Daniel Clemente][Daniel Clemente]]
`----
making it easy to go back and forth.
HTH,
Nick
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-09 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-07 20:03 BBDB(3) or org-contacts Gour
2013-01-08 6:46 ` David Rogers
2013-01-08 7:45 ` Gour
2013-01-08 16:14 ` Daniel Clemente
2013-01-08 19:50 ` Gour
2013-01-08 21:14 ` Michael Strey
2013-01-09 14:16 ` Gour
2013-01-10 9:01 ` Michael Strey
2013-01-11 11:29 ` Karl Voit
2013-01-09 20:12 ` Nick Dokos [this message]
2013-01-09 20:28 ` Nick Dokos
2013-01-08 17:16 ` OBBDB(3) " Wes Hardaker
2013-01-08 19:53 ` Gour
2013-01-09 16:08 ` Wes Hardaker
2013-01-09 16:44 ` Gour
2013-01-13 22:04 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-01-14 8:02 ` Gour
2013-01-14 8:36 ` Gour
2013-01-14 22:14 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-01-15 10:40 ` Gour
2013-01-16 0:46 ` Eric S Fraga
2013-01-14 10:04 ` Myles English
2013-01-14 11:03 ` Gour
2013-01-14 13:04 ` Russell Adams
2013-01-14 13:27 ` Daimrod
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