From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nick Dokos Subject: Re: BBDB(3) or org-contacts Date: Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:12 -0500 Message-ID: <10009.1357762332@alphaville.americas.hpqcorp.net> References: <876237slcc.wl%n142857@gmail.com> Reply-To: nicholas.dokos@hp.com Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:43279) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tt20w-0006uk-5c for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:48 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tt20k-0002hJ-VB for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:42 -0500 Received: from g6t0185.atlanta.hp.com ([15.193.32.62]:5855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Tt20c-0002gH-2g for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:30 -0500 In-Reply-To: Message from Daniel Clemente of "Tue, 08 Jan 2013 17:14:43 +0100." <876237slcc.wl%n142857@gmail.com> 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: Daniel Clemente Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org, Gour Daniel Clemente 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