From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Charles Cave Subject: Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 13:45:53 +1000 Message-ID: <200608280345.k7S3jrYh023793@mail10.syd.optusnet.com.au> Reply-To: charles_cave@optusnet.com.au Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: binary Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHY4Z-0004cP-OE for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:46:03 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GHY4W-0004cD-V3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:46:02 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GHY4W-0004cA-ST for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:46:00 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: Xavier Maillard Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 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 ? ...)