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From: Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au>
To: Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org>
Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:45:53 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608280345.k7S3jrYh023793@mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au> (raw)


Xavier,

I have no idea what a BBDB file is but I do use org-mode to manage my contacts.

Each contact is a heading then I keep information with one data field
per line identified with a letter. This is useful for generating compact printouts
for my planner folder.

A: Address
H: Home phone number
W: Word Phone number
B: Birthdate
M: Mobile (cell) Phone number
E: Email address (not used much since email addresses live inside
    my Thunderbird or Gmail account.
F: Fax 

For example:

** John Smith 
A: 200 Pacific Highway, North Sydney, NSW 2070
H: 9433 7645
W:908 75431
B:10-May-1960
E: 
jsmith@somewhere.com

Notes about the contact go here

I used to structure the contacts under major headings of Family,
Friends, School, Work related, Financial, Restaurants,  but I am going
to rework this using org-mode tags for various categories. A useful tag
would be for Christmas card lists/

> Xavier Maillard <zedek@gnu.org> wrote:

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

> 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 ? ...) 

             reply	other threads:[~2006-08-28  3:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-28  3:45 Charles Cave [this message]
2006-08-28  7:07 ` Org mode as contact DB/Log ? Xavier Maillard
2006-08-28 10:01   ` Chris Lowis
2006-08-28 10:41     ` Xavier Maillard
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-08-27 17:59 Xavier Maillard
2006-08-27 20:07 ` Adrian Aichner

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