From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Gour Subject: BBDB(3) or org-contacts Date: Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:03:24 +0100 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:48767) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsIvG-0001vX-Sf for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:03:52 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsIvF-0004Cj-Eh for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:03:50 -0500 Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:47154) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1TsIvF-0004Ce-7u for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 15:03:49 -0500 Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1TsIvT-0006LA-6X for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:03 +0100 Received: from 93-139-139-50.adsl.net.t-com.hr ([93.139.139.50]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:03 +0100 Received: from gour by 93-139-139-50.adsl.net.t-com.hr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Mon, 07 Jan 2013 21:04:03 +0100 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 Hello, I've decided to use Gnus for my mail news (converted my present setup to Maildirs served by locally running dovecot, but need some time to setup Gnus) and wonder what do you recommend for keeping my contacts? Besides keeping contacts just as Gnus addressbook, I'd like to store some extra data for some contacts like date-of-birth, place-of-birth, time-of-birth as well as to keep records for my counseling clients about their appointments, iow. notes about every session they had with the ability to perform some custom-based searches. Based on this description it seems that org-contacts is more suitable for the task than BBDB(3) offering ability to have custom format, easy editing of contacts etc., but I do wonder about scalability considering the following post (http://www.hardakers.net/code/bbdb-to-org-contacts/) where the author of bbdb-to-org-contacts converter wrote: "Once I point org-contacts at my newly generated file containing 831 records it make org-contacts really really slow down. I wouldn't care about the normal record searching process for just looking something up, but it makes loading a message in gnus unusable (5 second delay per message)." Any hint? Sincerely, Gour -- Even if you are considered to be the most sinful of all sinners, when you are situated in the boat of transcendental knowledge you will be able to cross over the ocean of miseries. http://www.atmarama.net | Hlapicina (Croatia) | GPG: 52B5C810