From: henry atting <nsmp_02@online.de>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: org-contacts or bbdb?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2011 09:57:20 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87obxa6alb.fsf@bye.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 87ipnji75w.fsf@gmail.com
Rasmus <rasmus@gmx.us> writes:
> 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.
> [...]
+1
As I thougt that bbdb is no longer developped I switched to
org-contacts some time ago - which did not satisfy my needs in some
way. The (re-)discovery of bbdb3 elicits a sigh of relief...
Thanks,
henry
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http://literaturlatenight.de
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2011-10-21 7:57 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
2011-10-21 7:57 ` henry atting [this message]
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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