From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Russell Adams Subject: Re: Re: contact management in org-mode? Date: Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:22:04 -0500 Message-ID: <20091025142204.GB28398@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> References: <878wfoc5ao.fsf@cuma.i-did-not-set--mail-host-address--so-tickle-me> <87iqerzvm2.fsf@gollum.intra.norang.ca> <20091025023410.GK2357@thinkpad.adamsinfoserv.com> <87iqe4huvx.fsf@MagnusOpus.khem> <4ae457d4.6202be0a.6028.445e@mx.google.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N23z0-0002iM-Fm for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:22:10 -0400 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N23yy-0002hh-0o for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:22:09 -0400 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=45138 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N23yx-0002he-SK for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0400 Received: from squirtle.drak.net ([72.52.144.201]:58715) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N23yx-0002HH-G7 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 10:22:07 -0400 Received: from 216.112.183.3.ptr.us.xo.net ([216.112.183.3] helo=localhost) by squirtle.drak.net with esmtpsa (TLSv1:AES128-SHA:128) (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1N23yq-0004RG-QM for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sun, 25 Oct 2009 09:22:01 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4ae457d4.6202be0a.6028.445e@mx.google.com> 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: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org On Sun, Oct 25, 2009 at 10:51:07AM -0300, Darlan Cavalcante Moreira wrote: > > If there was someway to sync (two-way) bbdb with google contacts all problems > would be solved for me, since I can sync my phone with google contacts and > Evolution can read/write from/to google contacts (although nowadays I use > wanderlust in Emacs instead of evolution, which obviously can use bbdb). > > Darlan That is one of my issues. I just got a new G1 and am having to merge my contact data from BBDB, mutt aliases, lbdb's incoming mail DB, my previous cell phone, and outlook to push up to Google Mail so I can sync it with my G1. Every other file is easy to work with except BBDB. I'm close to just managing contacts in CSV and leaving it there. I would consider using Google as a master copy of my contacts only if I can automate the download of a CSV from Google. I'm not always online and can't operate without a local copy. That doesn't look too good at this point, because the Google API only documents RSS/Atom/JSON, not the CSV that gmail uses. Abook is still in the lead due to its consistent import/export support, however because it isn't flexible I may just do a CSV file and grep it for Mutt. > > At Sun, 25 Oct 2009 02:04:18 -0400, > Charles Philip Chan wrote: > > > > Russell Adams writes: > > > > > I'm migrating out of it as fast as I can. The import/export tools are > > > terrible / nonexistant unless you know elisp, > > > > Have you tried any of these. > > > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbImporters > > http://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/BbdbExporters > > In reply to the previous poster, I had seen these, but one file per contact or even multiple lines per contact is not a valid way to manage them in bulk. I've thrown them all in a spreadsheet for now. I've also noted that vCard doesn't support grouping via keywords in the standard. That's a problem in Abook's static field assignment, but I can use a colon separated custom field if I must. Thanks. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Russell Adams RLAdams@AdamsInfoServ.com PGP Key ID: 0x1160DCB3 http://www.adamsinfoserv.com/ Fingerprint: 1723 D8CA 4280 1EC9 557F 66E8 1154 E018 1160 DCB3