From: Simon Thum <simon.thum@gmx.de>
To: news1142@Karl-Voit.at
Cc: Karl Voit <devnull@Karl-Voit.at>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Customizing org-contacts Was: Re: How I am organizing contacts
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 15:43:52 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FE71998.7050803@gmx.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2012-06-23T11-19-19@devnull.Karl-Voit.at>
Hi,
thanks for sharing your setup. Piggybacking on this thread, I'm just
starting with org-contacts and wonder how I could get it to perform
case-insensitive searches? (This would make it easier to search for
parts of names)
Cheers,
Simon
On 06/23/2012 11:58 AM, Karl Voit wrote:
> * Sriram Karra<karra.etc@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Karl Voit<devnull@karl-voit.at> wrote:
>>
>>> I am using Org-mode to organize my contacts following
>>> org-contacts.el[1] and a *lot* of additional properties. Those
>>> things are so far =BBby convention=AB and I always wanted to sum it up
>>> on WORG but did not find time for that.
>>
>> Even with BBDB there are only few "standard" fields, and a tonne of custom
>> fields. If conventions are only in naming the property fields that is
>> trivially fixed through a config file (something I do already for the BBDB
>> handlers).
>
> Oh, I am certain that for mapping purposes there are technical
> solutions.
>
> Originally I wanted to sum up my method (my convention) to spare
> other peoples time to come up with their own. I looked at other
> software solutions and meta-data standards to get a convention that
> reflects a «general» attempt.
>
> To be fair: I could not find any common ISO or something other
> standard for that purpose which overrules other conventions.
>
> So a *common* convention could spare users to create those
> (optional) mappings by themselves.
>
>> I am a beginner level org-mode user - I was away from Emacs for nearly 8
>> years and returned to find this fascinating and gigantic new development in
>> the Emacs world :)
>
> This paragraph I could have written on my own one year ago :-)
>
>> But if you can document your contact structure, I could
>> potentially implement it some point in the future.
>
> It's fairly simple: I do have an Org-mode file named «contact.org»
> with a tree: no flat structure, since I tend to map family trees to
> Org-mode headline hierarchies:
>
> - groups
> - relatives
> - families sharing the last name A
> - family of person A
> - person A
> - [other members of family of person A]
> - friends
> - [same concept as above with relatives]
> - job B
> - [more or less flat list of people I got in touch with while
> working for company B]
>
> For less tight connections that do not belong to the sub-hierarchies
> above, I do have separate headlines which contain only a flat
> sub-hierarchy each:
>
> - people (people which are not friends, family, or other categories)
> - passing acquaintances (people I hardy know but want to store info)
> - companies (I am using tags to differ between entries of companies)
>
> Each and every entry is created using a yasnippet[2] template like
> this:
>
> ,----[ vkcontact ]
> | # name : Org-contacts template for a person
> | # --
> | ** $1 $2 :$1$2:
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :TYPE: ${3:$$(yas/choose-value '("person" "company"))}
> | :TITLE:
> | :EMAIL: $4
> | :URL:
> | :MOBILE: 0043/
> | :HOMEPHONE:
> | :WORKPHONE:
> | :PHONE:
> | :COMPANY:
> | :STREET:
> | :POSTALCODE:
> | :CITY:
> | :COUNTRY: Österreich
> | :END:
> |
> | first contact: $0
> `----
>
> This ends up in entries like:
>
> ,----[ vkcontentry ]
> | ** John Smith :JohnSmith:
> | :PROPERTIES:
> | :TYPE: person
> | :TITLE: Dr.
> | :EMAIL: john.smith@example.com
> | :URL: http://john.smith.com/
> | :MOBILE: 0043/6123/12345678
> | :HOMEPHONE:
> | :WORKPHONE:
> | :PHONE:
> | :COMPANY: Graz University of Technology
> | :STREET: Herrengasse 1
> | :POSTALCODE: 8010
> | :CITY: Graz
> | :COUNTRY: Österreich
> | :END:
> |
> | first contact: we met at CHI2012 conference
> `----
>
> One minor flaw is that I have to modify the level of the headline
> resulting from the template according to the level where it belongs.
> Maybe somebody has a solution to that little but annoying thing?
>
> Below the «first contact»-line, I start to write all things related
> to a contact starting with an active time-stamp: changes in phone
> numbers or addresses, little things I do want to track (favourite
> sport, links to other friends of mine, what I gave for birthday,
> ...).
>
> At the bottom of every contact, I add (repeating) events for
> birthday and other anniversaries. When I am doing something with
> only one person (going out for lunch, doing a biking tour, ...) I am
> creating entries for those events directly in this contacts.org
> file. Also handy: keeping track of doctor visits and any health
> related information right at the entry of this doctor.
>
>
> My current tags for contacts are defined in the header of my
> contacts.org:
>
> ,----[ first line of my contacts.org ]
> | #+TAGS: job(j) friends(f) health(e) hotels(o) restaurants_bars(r) \
> | sport(s) students_TU(t) relatives(r) company(c)
> `----
>
> ... but this is pretty much related to my previous system
> (jPilot/datebk6/PalmOS) which offered only one single category for
> each contact. I might re-think these tags in future.
>
>
> I am using the following yasnippet template to generate a link to an
> entry of my contact list:
>
> ,----[ vkcontact ]
> | # name : expand link to contact
> | # --
> | [[contact:$1][${2:$$(unless yas/modified-p
> | (let ((field (nth 0 (yas/snippet-fields (first (yas/snippets-at-point))))))
> | (concat (buffer-substring (yas/field-start field) (yas/field-end field)))))}]] $0
> `----
>
> So when I am invoking «vkcontact» + TAB, and I enter «John Smith» +
> TAB, it ends up in: «[[contact:John Smith][John Smith]]».
>
> Of course there has to be an entry in my .emacs which enables the
> custom link:
>
> ,----[ snippet from .emacs: the line with «contact» is the one relevant ]
> | (setq org-link-abbrev-alist
> | '(
> | ("bib" . "~/archive/papers_from_web/%s.bib")
> | ("ref" . "file:~/share/all/org-mode/references.org::/%s/")
> | ("pdf" . "~/archive/papers_from_web/%s.pdf")
> | ("notes" . "~/archive/papers_from_web/%s-notes.pdf")
> | ("contact" . "~/share/all/org-mode/contacts.org::/\*.*%s/")
> | ("vktsfile" . "~/share/all/org-mode/memacs/files.org_archive::/\*.*%s/")
> | ))
> `----
>
>
>> Do you use any import/export/sync code with org-contacts?
>
> Not yet.
>
> I did not have time to implement something on my own and so far the
> desire to do so was almost non existent (time!). But if there will
> be a solution which helps me syncing my phone contacts (again), I am
> willing to give it a try.
>
> Personally I do want to have control over this process: I store
> *everything* about a contact in Org-mode but I just want to have
> synced phone numbers, email addresses, and names to my Android
> device. Nothing more, nothing less.
>
> 2. http://emacswiki.org/emacs/Yasnippet
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-24 13:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-06-22 6:21 BBDB Sync (Was: Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?) Sriram Karra
2012-06-22 20:03 ` Karl Voit
2012-06-23 3:21 ` Sriram Karra
2012-06-23 9:58 ` How I am organizing contacts (was: BBDB Sync) Karl Voit
2012-06-24 13:43 ` Simon Thum [this message]
2012-06-24 15:21 ` Case insensitive search (was: Customizing org-contacts) Karl Voit
2012-06-24 20:17 ` Case insensitive search Simon Thum
2012-06-24 20:33 ` Nick Dokos
2012-06-23 21:14 ` BBDB Sync John Wiegley
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