Re: contact management in emacs

["Sébastien Rey-Coyrehourcq" <sebastien.rey-coyrehourcq@univ-rouen.fr>]

Hi,

After some search today on the web, like Alan i try to compare all 
possibility to manage my contact + mail using emacs, mu4e, and org.

Since Alan Schmitt message, i think many people jump into the great 
*org-roam* wagon to manage notes, bibliography, links, everything...

I'm into this *crazy* wagon, trying now to manage contact, with this 
workflow :

- one file/node by contact,
- stored into the org-roam specific folder "/myorgroamfolder/contact/ 
with this encrypted org pattern to protect files "*.org.gpg"
- using into mu4e

There are some post exploring part of this use case on the web, but i 
first focus to *org-contacts*, because it's well integrated with mu4e 
auto-completion :

Moving from org-contrib to https://repo.or.cz/org-contacts.git , 
accessible with melpa,  the documentation is mostly into the source-code 
actually, i found few example on the web .

What property field are correct :MOBILE:, :PHONE:, :BIRTHDAY: , and ?

I found some information about configuration in Terencio Agozzino 
dotfiles (https://github.com/rememberYou/.emacs.d) but when i try to 
adapt to this use case,
that don't work, probably because i misunderstand something, about 
properties name, or localization into the .org.gpg files.

I config like that (org-contacts-file (file-expand-wildcards 
"~/my-org-roam-folder/contact/*.org.gpg))

It's slow because everything need to be unencrypted before (this is 
another problem ...) but something i don't understand is how matching 
work :
calling "M-x org-contacts", i try multiple patterns, so i'm interested 
by a working org/org-roam contact example.

I found some alternatives to test next week :

- org-vcard (on github) compatible with org-contacts, focusing on 
import/export of vcard files
- mu4e-contacts (on gitlab) using helm / mu4e, inspired by org-contacts
- org-ql query ?

Best,

Sebastien R.C



Le 27/02/2021 à 12:08, Alan Schmitt a écrit :
> Hello,
>
> This may be slightly off-topic for the list, but as I’m considering
> org-contacts for my question, I hope it will be of interest here.
>
> I would like to migrate my contact management to emacs, as I’m already
> using it for email. My requirements are the following ones:
> - address completion in emacs email clients (I currently use notmuch)
> - support for multiple email addresses and custom fields
> - creation of org links to contacts
> - export to vcard format for synchronization to my mobile phone (using
> vdirsyncer)
> - keep the data under version control
>
> I have looked at two tools, which almost seem fit for the job.
> - ebdb does most of this, with the exception of vcard export (it seems
> to be worked on, https://github.com/girzel/ebdb/issues/60), and I’m not
> sure using version control on an sqlite file is a good idea.
> - org-contacts also seem to have all the required features, including
> vcard export (and if not sufficient there is
> https://github.com/novoid/org-contacts2vcard). I was worried it was
> unmaintained when looking at the copyright line, but I see in
> https://code.orgmode.org/bzg/org-mode/commits/master/contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el
> that there are recent commits to the file.
>
> Do you manage your contacts in emacs? And if so, what tools or workflow
> do you recommend?
>
> Best,
>
> Alan