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From: Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 00:18:19 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ipnji75w.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 8762jj1g81.fsf@micropit.couberia.bzh

pmlists@free.fr (Peter Münster) writes:

> Hello,
>
> I would like to manage my contacts, so that I can
> - easily search them
> - add new email addresses from gnus (summary buffer)
> - complete email addresses in gnus (message buffer and prompts in
>   mini-buffer)
> - and perhaps more in the future
>
> Could you guide me please, what to choose, org-contacts or bbdb?
> I don't see the advantages of the one or of the other...
> TIA for any hints!

I used org-contacts but now use bbdb3.  I think bbdb does it all and
it's quite nice.

I don't remember why I dropped Org-contant, but I think I found it hard
to manage my contacts in the way I would ideally like to with it.

Cheers,
Rasmus

-- 
Sent from my Emacs

next prev parent reply	other threads:[~2011-10-20 23:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-10-20 21:54 org-contacts or bbdb? Peter Münster
2011-10-20 23:18 ` Rasmus [this message]
2011-10-21  7:57   ` henry atting
2011-10-21  2:21 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-10-21 17:05   ` Wes Hardaker
2011-10-21 17:44     ` Sebastien Vauban
2011-10-23  9:36   ` Peter Münster
2011-10-24 14:46     ` Wes Hardaker

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