Org mode as contact DB/Log ?

Org mode as contact DB/Log ?

[Xavier Maillard]

Hello,

I am trying to feed my BBDB file with personnal and profesionnal
contacts.

I have difficulties doing so (phone format is not clear in my mind)
and thus I was thinking I could use org-mode to manage my contacts.

Does any of you are doing this ? Do you have ideas to share on that
topic ?

My idea is to use Org as contact DB plus having tools to manage a
contact log (when did I call Mr X ? what did we talk about ? ...)

WDYT ?

Xavier

Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ?

[Adrian Aichner]

Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I am trying to feed my BBDB file with personnal and profesionnal
> contacts.
>
> I have difficulties doing so (phone format is not clear in my mind)

Hi Xavier, have you
(setq bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil)
yet, which should allow you to enter numbers not conforming to
american conventions?

I keep my Outlook contacts (for my PocketPC phone) and my BBDB (which
is the master, of course) in sync by ediffing CSV exports of both.

Both BBDB and Outlook are happy with an international phone number
format of
+CountryCode (AreaCode) RemainingNumbersSeparatedByHyphenOrSpace

And the mobile phone services know how to interpret the + between
varying countries of source and destination of the call.

Works for me.

I'm using planner/muse, which has planner-bbdb.el, but I'm not using
that particular feature yet.

Thanks for planting that seed in my brain!

Adrian

-- 
Adrian Aichner
 mailto:adrian@xemacs.org
 http://www.xemacs.org/

Re: Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ?

[Xavier Maillard]

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>
> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> writes:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > I am trying to feed my BBDB file with personnal and profesionnal
> > contacts.
> >
> > I have difficulties doing so (phone format is not clear in my mind)
>
> Hi Xavier, have you
> (setq bbdb-north-american-phone-numbers-p nil)



In fact I tried to do it but I misspelled this option thus the error :)
Bummer !

I keep my Outlook contacts (for my PocketPC phone) and my BBDB (which
> is the master, of course) in sync by ediffing CSV exports of both.


How do you do that ?

Thank you very much
-- 
Xavier Maillard

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