Contact information in the orgmode notes?

Contact information in the orgmode notes?

[Jaakko Hollmén]

Dear orgmode'rs,

I am a fairly new user of orgmode, but find it brilliantly
simple and useful. I have the following question to ask
from the wiser and the more experienced users/developers:

Is there an obvious or easy way to include contact information
of people in the orgmode plain file notes? I am aware of emacs-related
packages, such as BBDB and AddressBook (vCard based address book,
still under development), but it seems these are built around a
separate database of contacts with possibly their own defined formats.

It would be appealing to include people's basic information in
the vCard style/spirit, but still have no separate databases and/or
custom formats. You can also import/export contact information
from/to your mobile phones and e-mail clients as vCards. Brief
examples can be found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
with pointers to the real documentation (rfc2425 and rfc2426).

I'm thankful for any hints or suggestions on the topic.

M-x wish-you-all-the-best
Jaakko
--
Jaakko Hollmén, http://users.ics.tkk.fi/jhollmen/

Re: Contact information in the orgmode notes?

[Jambunathan K]

> Is there an obvious or easy way to include contact information of
> people in the orgmode plain file notes? I am aware of emacs-related
> packages, such as BBDB and AddressBook (vCard based address book,
> still under development), but it seems these are built around a
> separate database of contacts with possibly their own defined formats.

Have you looked at org-contacts?

http://lists.gnu.org/archive/cgi-bin/namazu.cgi?query=org-contacts&submit=Search&idxname=emacs-orgmode

Jambunathan K.

Re: Contact information in the orgmode notes?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Jaakko Hollmén <jaakko.hollmen@aalto.fi> writes:

> Dear orgmode'rs,
>
> I am a fairly new user of orgmode, but find it brilliantly
> simple and useful. I have the following question to ask
> from the wiser and the more experienced users/developers:
>
> Is there an obvious or easy way to include contact information
> of people in the orgmode plain file notes? I am aware of emacs-related
> packages, such as BBDB and AddressBook (vCard based address book,
> still under development), but it seems these are built around a
> separate database of contacts with possibly their own defined formats.
>

Did you take a look at org-contacts ?

It is here contrib/lisp$ less org-contacts.el

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

Re: Contact information in the orgmode notes?

[Noorul Islam K M]

Noorul Islam K M <noorul@noorul.com> writes:

>
> Did you take a look at org-contacts ?
>
> It is here contrib/lisp$ less org-contacts.el
>

Sorry! The correct path is contrib/lisp/org-contacts.el

Thanks and Regards
Noorul

Re: Contact information in the orgmode notes?

[Jaakko Hollmén]

Thanks to Jambunathan K. and Noorul for their informed hints.

I upgraded immediately from my 7.5 to git dev version, where the
org-contacts indeed exists! Thanks once more.

Jaakko

On Apr 26, 2011, at 1:49 PM, Jaakko Hollmén wrote:

> Dear orgmode'rs,
>
> Is there an obvious or easy way to include contact information
> of people in the orgmode plain file notes? I am aware of emacs-related
> packages, such as BBDB and AddressBook (vCard based address book,
> still under development), but it seems these are built around a
> separate database of contacts with possibly their own defined formats.
>
> I'm thankful for any hints or suggestions on the topic.