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From: John Hendy <jw.hendy@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:00:28 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <AANLkTi=yjWWuhPiAkOvFTvKA5a48cLZSAUbgpZYLcuJD@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87r5bhysp6.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org>


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On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:02 AM, Julien Danjou <julien@danjou.info> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Following my short presentation at the Paris OrgCamp, I've now written a
> page and officially released org-contacts. It is a contact manager based
> on Org, that can possibly replace BBDB for certain usage.
>
>   http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html
>
>
This is awesome. I was using bbdb but got tired of it. I switched to the
contacts method mentioned on the mailing list a time ago about just doing
something like this (which is also the approx format you've used):

,-----
| * Category
| ** Name
|   :PROPERTIES:
|   :Phone: xxxxxxx
|   :Email: blah@blah.com
|   ...etc.
|   :END:
`-----

From skimming the website and org-contacts.el, is the main advantage that it
can search multiple files as well as integrate with gnus? I don't use gnus
(can't access personal email via pop/imap from behind work firewall) and so
that feature isn't wholly attractive. It looks like I could use the remember
template as well for my current method. Is there something else that you
would put forth as the primary benefits of this system? I'm quite interested
in it.

A few other questions:
-- can you add additional fields? It looks like I could keep repeating the
pattern in your .el like so:
,-----
|(defcustom org-contacts-SOME-NAME-property "SOME-NAME"
|  "Name of the property for contact email address."
|  :type 'string
|  :group 'org-contacts)
`-----

-- I will often need to look up a contact at work and reproduce it in an
email. It would be nice to standardize the order of the properties and then
have a way to "export" the whole contact into the kill-ring for pasting into
email format. Do you think something like that could be integrated? For
example 'M-x export-selected-contact' would take the highlighted area and
create:

,-----
| Name
| Title
| Company
| Email
| Phone
`-----

And perhaps one could define the fields for export (I wouldn't, for example,
hardly ever need to export the address and my notes about the contact).

Just my thoughts! I was very excited to see this in my inbox and look
around. I'm assuming with the right fields, my current system would already
be in the right syntax to integrate with this, so I'm interested to hear
your answers to the above.


Thanks for your work,
John


> --
> Julien Danjou
> ❱ http://julien.danjou.info
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  reply	other threads:[~2011-02-09 19:00 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 93+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-02-09  9:02 Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 19:00 ` John Hendy [this message]
2011-02-09 20:04   ` Sébastien Vauban
2011-02-09 20:43     ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 21:10       ` Russell Adams
2011-02-09 21:25         ` Marcelo de Moraes Serpa
2011-02-09 20:42   ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 14:34     ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 14:42       ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-09 19:16 ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-09 19:26 ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 13:39 ` Dan Griswold
2011-02-10 14:42   ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 14:45 ` Dan Davison
2011-02-10 14:56   ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 15:05     ` John Hendy
2011-02-10 15:08     ` Dan Davison
2011-02-10 15:26     ` Rodrigo Lazo
2011-02-10 16:30     ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-10 16:56       ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-10 18:20         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 10:21           ` [Orgmode] " Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 14:47             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 20:15               ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-11 23:08                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-12 18:37                   ` Tassilo Horn
2011-02-20 16:58                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-18 15:00                   ` Completing with anything (was: [Orgmode] Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org) Julien Danjou
2011-03-18 18:16                     ` Completing with anything Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 11:23                       ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 12:51                         ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-21 13:36                           ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 14:17                             ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-21 16:27                             ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 16:55                               ` Dimitri Fontaine
2011-03-21 17:04                               ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-21 22:00                                 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-22  3:01                                   ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-03-22 14:13                                     ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-22 15:02                                       ` Eric Abrahamsen
2011-03-23  9:45                                       ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-23 14:13                                         ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-23 15:05                                           ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-23 16:03                                             ` Eric S Fraga
2011-03-24 20:15                                             ` Cian
2011-03-25 10:16                                               ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-26 22:06                                                 ` Michael Markert
2011-03-26 23:40                                                   ` Michael Markert
2011-04-09 12:13                                                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-09 13:54                                                       ` Michael Markert
2011-04-11  9:24                                                         ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-11  9:37                                                           ` Bastien
2011-04-11 13:42                                                             ` Michael Markert
2011-04-30 13:39                                                               ` Michael Markert
2011-05-03  8:09                                                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-22 10:00                                 ` Aankhen
2011-03-22 11:57                                   ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-22 12:03                                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-03-22 12:31                                       ` Tassilo Horn
2011-03-21 15:19                         ` Stefan Monnier
2011-03-21 15:54                           ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-09 15:11                             ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-10  4:03                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-11  9:21                                 ` Julien Danjou
2011-04-12  3:42                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-04-12  9:48                                     ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-04 15:07                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-04 15:34                                         ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-24  3:14                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24  7:33                                             ` Julien Danjou
2011-05-24  9:16                                             ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 12:47                                               ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 13:18                                                 ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 14:04                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 14:05                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 14:45                                                     ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-24 18:05                                                   ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-24 18:30                                                     ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-26  2:23                                                       ` Stefan Monnier
2011-05-26  7:50                                                         ` Antoine Levitt
2011-05-28  2:15                                                           ` Stefan Monnier
2011-02-11 11:08         ` Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Thierry Volpiatto
2011-02-11 15:08 ` Darlan Cavalcante Moreira
2011-02-23 11:09   ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-12 12:18 ` Bastien
2011-02-12 16:35   ` John Hendy
2011-02-12 17:12     ` Bastien
2011-02-23 11:11     ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-12 19:42   ` Matt Lundin
2011-02-23 11:14     ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-14 18:24   ` Wes Hardaker
2011-02-23 11:10   ` Julien Danjou
2011-02-26 17:26     ` Bastien

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