* Org mode as contact DB/Log ? @ 2006-08-27 17:59 Xavier Maillard 2006-08-27 20:07 ` Adrian Aichner 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-27 17:59 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode 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 ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? 2006-08-27 17:59 Org mode as contact DB/Log ? Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-27 20:07 ` Adrian Aichner 2006-08-28 7:06 ` Xavier Maillard 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Adrian Aichner @ 2006-08-27 20:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode 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/ ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? 2006-08-27 20:07 ` Adrian Aichner @ 2006-08-28 7:06 ` Xavier Maillard 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-28 7:06 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Adrian Aichner; +Cc: emacs-orgmode [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 581 bytes --] > > 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 [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1058 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 149 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ?
@ 2006-08-28 3:45 Charles Cave
2006-08-28 7:07 ` Xavier Maillard
0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread
From: Charles Cave @ 2006-08-28 3:45 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Xavier Maillard; +Cc: emacs-orgmode
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 ? ...)
^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread* Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? 2006-08-28 3:45 Charles Cave @ 2006-08-28 7:07 ` Xavier Maillard 2006-08-28 10:01 ` Chris Lowis 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-28 7:07 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 813 bytes --] 2006/8/28, Charles Cave <charles_cave@optusnet.com.au>: > > > Xavier, > > I have no idea what a BBDB file is but I do use org-mode to manage my > contacts. BBDB is a poweful contact manager with many features and possibility to use its data from many other emacs mode. 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. This is how I would do it too but I need to think more about that. This is of high interest for me except I need something that can interact with mail-mode and things like that. In fact I really need something to replace my current BBDB setup and thus be able to mail a contact, do linking from a contact to an org file, ... Regards -- Xavier Maillard [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1343 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 149 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? 2006-08-28 7:07 ` Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-28 10:01 ` Chris Lowis 2006-08-28 10:41 ` Xavier Maillard 0 siblings, 1 reply; 7+ messages in thread From: Chris Lowis @ 2006-08-28 10:01 UTC (permalink / raw) To: emacs-orgmode > This is of high interest for me except I need something that can interact > with mail-mode and things like that. In fact I really need something to > replace my current BBDB setup and thus be able to mail a contact, do linking > from a contact to an org file, ... There was some talk a while ago about just such a system based on Muse-mode. Perhaps if this project were to get off the ground it could have the option to use either muse mode, or org-mode as a "backend" . http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/MuseContacts Chris ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
* Re: Org mode as contact DB/Log ? 2006-08-28 10:01 ` Chris Lowis @ 2006-08-28 10:41 ` Xavier Maillard 0 siblings, 0 replies; 7+ messages in thread From: Xavier Maillard @ 2006-08-28 10:41 UTC (permalink / raw) To: Chris Lowis; +Cc: emacs-orgmode [-- Attachment #1.1: Type: text/plain, Size: 840 bytes --] 2006/8/28, Chris Lowis <chris@chrislowis.co.uk>: > > > This is of high interest for me except I need something that can > interact > > with mail-mode and things like that. In fact I really need something to > > replace my current BBDB setup and thus be able to mail a contact, do > linking > > from a contact to an org file, ... > > There was some talk a while ago about just such a system based on > Muse-mode. Perhaps if this project were to get off the ground it could > have the option to use either muse mode, or org-mode as a "backend" . > > http://www.emacswiki.org/cgi-bin/emacs/MuseContacts Really interesting. I will try to contact people on this topic ASAP to know the project state and status. In the midline, I am still interested in earing about your own and personnal use cases for that kind of task -- Xavier Maillard [-- Attachment #1.2: Type: text/html, Size: 1215 bytes --] [-- Attachment #2: Type: text/plain, Size: 149 bytes --] _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Emacs-orgmode@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-orgmode ^ permalink raw reply [flat|nested] 7+ messages in thread
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