This looks impressive. Thanks! I need to spend some time with it but loos
like I can definitely steal stuff from what you’ve done for my use-cases.

Out of curiosity, since this looks superior, why did you not
fork/contribute PRa to .org-contact to fold these into the package.

thanks again!
Daryl.

On Mon, 17 Jun 2019 at 18:24, John Kitchin <jkitchin@andrew.cmu.edu> wrote:

> I use https://github.com/jkitchin/scimax/blob/master/contacts.el for
> something like this. There are helm/ivy interfaces in there for doing
> things like you describe. Mostly I use it to fill in email fields in
> messages.
>
>
> Daryl Manning <dwm+orgmode@wakatara.com> writes:
>
> > I'm trying to figure out a way to hotkey bringing up a minibuffer in
> > ivy/ivy-rich much as I would with say `C-x b/k` for switching/killing
> > buffers, but allowing me to filter down to a contact and then, when
> > selected, have that put a `C-c l` link into a document for them.
> >
> > Is there any way to do this? org-contacts documentation is light and
> while
> > there is a search function in there, having trouble bending it as much as
> > I'd like to my will (see previous message about a week's notice on
> > birthdays/anniversaries) though I like the fact it's nice and lightweight
> > and seems to do most of what I want within the workflow I've sort of
> > created for myself (
> > https://daryl.wakatara.com/a-better-gtd-and-crm-flow-for-emacs-org-mode
> )
> >
> > Anyone have any idea or tips on how they've handled that?
> > thanks!
> > Daryl.
>
>
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