From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Sebastien Vauban" Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb? Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 19:44:51 +0200 Message-ID: <80y5wew86k.fsf@somewhere.org> References: <8762jj1g81.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh> <87obxbt78o.fsf@ericabrahamsen.net> <0l7h3yff7g.fsf@wjh.hardakers.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: 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-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org To: emacs-orgmode-mXXj517/zsQ@public.gmane.org Hi Wes and all, Wes Hardaker wrote: >>>>>> 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... I share your point of view about editability of org-contacts. I clearly would like all my data to become Orgified in some way. Though, I did not do the change from my bbdb (still 2.35) to Org-contacts as, for me, one thing that really is missing is the ability to recognize emails and author names: I want to be alerted if my buddy "John Doe" uses a mail I wasn't aware of, and want to be offered the possibility to add it in my database. Same for the same email address, but with a different name. Best regards, Seb -- Sebastien Vauban