From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Sriram Karra Subject: Re: BBDB Sync (Was: Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?) Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2012 08:51:05 +0530 Message-ID: References: <2012-06-22T22-00-43@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=e89a8ff1c0943daaca04c31b3dba Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:38908) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiGuM-0005Vr-Se for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:21:12 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiGuK-0008Ca-EL for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:21:10 -0400 Received: from mail-pb0-f41.google.com ([209.85.160.41]:47978) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1SiGuK-0008CC-54 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 23:21:08 -0400 Received: by pbbrp2 with SMTP id rp2so4793147pbb.0 for ; Fri, 22 Jun 2012 20:21:06 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <2012-06-22T22-00-43@devnull.Karl-Voit.at> 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@gnu.org Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --e89a8ff1c0943daaca04c31b3dba Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Karl Voit wrote: > > I am using Org-mode to organize my contacts following > org-contacts.el[1] and a *lot* of additional properties. Those > things are so far =BBby convention=AB and I always wanted to sum it up > on WORG but did not find time for that. > Even with BBDB there are only few "standard" fields, and a tonne of custom fields. If conventions are only in naming the property fields that is trivially fixed through a config file (something I do already for the BBDB handlers). If you are interested in writing a sync module for Org-mode as well, > feel free to contact me. I am happy to describe you how I am > organizing contacts using Org-mode. > I am a beginner level org-mode user - I was away from Emacs for nearly 8 years and returned to find this fascinating and gigantic new development in the Emacs world :) But if you can document your contact structure, I could potentially implement it some point in the future. Do you use any import/export/sync code with org-contacts? -Karra --e89a8ff1c0943daaca04c31b3dba Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Jun 23, 2012 at 1:33 AM, Karl Voit <devnull@karl-voit.at>= ; wrote:

I am using Org-mode to organize my contacts following
org-contacts.el[1] and a *lot* of additional properties. Those
things are so far =BBby convention=AB and I always wanted to sum it up
on WORG but did not find time for that.

Even with BBDB there are only few "standard" fields, and a tonne= of custom fields. If conventions are only in naming the property fields th= at is trivially fixed through a config file (something I do already for the= BBDB handlers).

If you are interested in writing a sync module for Org-mode as well,
feel free to contact me. I am happy to describe you how I am
organizing contacts using Org-mode.

I a= m a beginner level org-mode user - =A0I was away from Emacs for nearly 8 ye= ars and returned to find this fascinating and gigantic new development in t= he Emacs world :) But if you can document your contact structure, I could p= otentially implement it some point in the future.

Do you use any import/export/sync code with org-contact= s?

-Karra
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