From: David Rogers <davidandrewrogers@gmail.com>
To: Gour <gour@atmarama.net>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: BBDB(3) or org-contacts
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:39 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <864nis9now.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <kcf9me$mqr$1@ger.gmane.org> (gour@atmarama.net's message of "Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:03:24 +0100")
Gour <gour@atmarama.net> writes:
> Hello,
>
> I've decided to use Gnus for my mail news (converted my present setup
> to Maildirs served by locally running dovecot, but need some time to
> setup Gnus) and wonder what do you recommend for keeping my contacts?
>
> Besides keeping contacts just as Gnus addressbook, I'd like to store
> some extra data for some contacts like date-of-birth, place-of-birth,
> time-of-birth as well as to keep records for my counseling clients
> about their appointments, iow. notes about every session they had with
> the ability to perform some custom-based searches.
>
> Based on this description it seems that org-contacts is more suitable
> for the task than BBDB(3) offering ability to have custom format, easy
> editing of contacts etc., but I do wonder about scalability considering
> the following post
> (http://www.hardakers.net/code/bbdb-to-org-contacts/) where the author
> 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)."
>
> Any hint?
One caution is that org-contacts is not (as far as I know) getting any
attention anymore - its author has (last I heard) moved to a
Google-based contacts manager.
--
David R
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-01-08 6:46 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 [this message]
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
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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