From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Julien Danjou Subject: Re: Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2011 21:42:33 +0100 Message-ID: <878vxpx7ly.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> References: <87r5bhysp6.fsf@keller.adm.naquadah.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="===============0137551658==" Return-path: Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=34669 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PnGs6-00020y-Pc for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:42:43 -0500 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnGs4-0002oW-GV for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:42:41 -0500 Received: from prometheus.naquadah.org ([212.85.154.174]:52589 helo=mx1.naquadah.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PnGs4-0002nv-8f for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Wed, 09 Feb 2011 15:42:40 -0500 In-Reply-To: (John Hendy's message of "Wed, 9 Feb 2011 13:00:28 -0600") 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: John Hendy Cc: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org --===============0137551658== Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="=-=-="; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature" --=-=-= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Wed, Feb 09 2011, John Hendy wrote: > From skimming the website and org-contacts.el, is the main advantage that= it > can search multiple files as well as integrate with gnus? I don't use gnus > (can't access personal email via pop/imap from behind work firewall) and = so > that feature isn't wholly attractive. It looks like I could use the remem= ber > template as well for my current method. Is there something else that you > would put forth as the primary benefits of this system? I'm quite interes= ted > in it. Not yet. I'm working with Bastien to integrate a set of patches so the `org-contacts' function will print contacts in a better way. They will probably be more at the time come, we'll see. > A few other questions: > -- can you add additional fields? It looks like I could keep repeating the > pattern in your .el like so: > ,----- > |(defcustom org-contacts-SOME-NAME-property "SOME-NAME" > | "Name of the property for contact email address." > | :type 'string > | :group 'org-contacts) > `----- You add what you want. Org-contacts does not care at all. It just use some fields like EMAIL for Gnus completion, so it has to know it. Other fields are up to your choices. > -- I will often need to look up a contact at work and reproduce it in an > email. It would be nice to standardize the order of the properties and th= en > have a way to "export" the whole contact into the kill-ring for pasting i= nto > email format. Do you think something like that could be integrated? For > example 'M-x export-selected-contact' would take the highlighted area and > create: > > ,----- > | Name > | Title > | Company > | Email > | Phone > `----- > > And perhaps one could define the fields for export (I wouldn't, for examp= le, > hardly ever need to export the address and my notes about the > contact). That would be easy. Maybe a vcard export even? > Just my thoughts! I was very excited to see this in my inbox and look > around. I'm assuming with the right fields, my current system would alrea= dy > be in the right syntax to integrate with this, so I'm interested to hear > your answers to the above. I think so, yes. Org-contacts let you be free about how you manage your contacts, so it should adapt to your current organization. =2D-=20 Julien Danjou =E2=9D=B1 http://julien.danjou.info --=-=-= Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJNUvw5AAoJEGEbqVCLeKXCN34P/A1CEb7VNDwaVE1Mo5wtt33Q i1oln86B2wco8N70ZwgN4NdMHGv97WFdJivUQaG0M52NXf41TDfDz3ogVnYYHGt1 MogAmOPmsrHqcSH1ta7FOuUxAwtdOiYt2zfwMvLFe0UEmz7XE69xFRpwrQG5HZ8b pz/rFgvz8VB+BEzMTq8pnwVJzDfT45qSHpudZ0mEUGbfYGlebwgFWx5hKZMeOwoW bQp9Jn6IuvNb5pmjs6jlklNrOAiHmbS8VOkLXCj912V9H/20s/sPYgiV6RHjdzhs ScldYNeWKD5li7st17jBSPPzlCUWzmRL3ZRSoW8V8pWh5c93fDP0a/U1BOhOtMD8 J5ThJpZg6n8WHnN2DD6uaRBlGy1JVbkoduos0wKzvTkfd/gaYT/HsxM37nxfLMqA QQTBG9XvlV2ocazyemCOPnCksRZLWji6H1nccZt7ZnAFfsnYgMLRLvee54emSGxT Q2Cz/3jMKIuVnmy0SIvZbyHCq8rNJ4eMzdGhuEeZWMYWkXXXmhv82Wl3u62+mw+Z cp1NOOouv39GgnRedjticaVeLJWqUKvTT+gVYsBFw43Kt1ff+6N/Fb2aXOHq7QV4 9qCYBbczzMBNf+yx0JGD5obfDxt6KL+fhCoFD4FQr1KhZ7ltceSIRgRzPVUPvaAC FSx4ldXIaPyoIGArh3rL =ZlkR -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --=-=-=-- --===============0137551658== Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline _______________________________________________ Emacs-orgmode mailing list Please use `Reply All' to send replies to the list. 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