From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matt Lundin Subject: Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Date: Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:42:12 -0500 Message-ID: <878vxlavl7.fsf@fastmail.fm> References: <87r5bhysp6.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> <87bp2hs8bu.fsf@altern.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=56816 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PoLMH-0006WB-NP for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:42:18 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PoLMF-0000U4-Ti for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:42:17 -0500 Received: from out1.smtp.messagingengine.com ([66.111.4.25]:58877) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PoLMF-0000TP-Q8 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Sat, 12 Feb 2011 14:42:15 -0500 In-Reply-To: <87bp2hs8bu.fsf@altern.org> (Bastien's message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2011 13:18:10 +0100") 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: Bastien Cc: Julien Danjou , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org Bastien writes: > Hi Julien, > > Julien Danjou writes: > >> Following my short presentation at the Paris OrgCamp, I've now written a >> page and officially released org-contacts. It is a contact manager based >> on Org, that can possibly replace BBDB for certain usage. >> >> http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html > > I've played around with it, and I can already see the benefit. When > org-contacts will insinuate into Gnus, that will be a real win. Agreed. Thanks, Julien! I'm curious how others are planning to organize contacts (i.e., in a single file or scattered throughout agenda files). I tried org-contacts with my rather large agenda files, but because it uses org-scan-tags instead of regexp searches, queries are slow. E.g., org-contacts-filter takes approximately 15-20 seconds. Also, the function org-contacts uses a tags/property search and then a skip function. Would it perhaps be quicker to use org-search-view to match against two regexps (the name and the contacts email property)? Best, Matt