Re: contact management in org-mode?

From: Shelagh Manton <shelagh.manton@gmail.com>
To: emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: contact management in org-mode?
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 21:54:17 +0000 (UTC)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <hcibm9$39l$1@ger.gmane.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: hce98g$4lk$1@ger.gmane.org

On Fri, 30 Oct 2009 09:48:16 +0100, Uwe Jochum wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> has someone tried "forms" for the purpose of contact management? See:
> 
> http://sunsite.ualberta.ca/Documentation/Gnu/emacs-21.1/html_chapter/
forms_frame.html
> 
> Best,
> 
> Uwe

I have used forms for a couple of primitive addresses databases I have 
which is based on the /etc/password file. I thought I'd say that, yes I 
have and do use forms for addresses and it does work nicely. 

But of course it does not hook into any other emacs functionality. Just 
use them to quickly look up addresses and phone numbers. 

Shelagh
> 
> Alan E. Davis schrieb am 29.10.2009 21:00:
>> I'll mention EDB, emacs data base, here, even though I haven't used it
>> for several years.
>> 
>> http://gnuvola.org/software/edb/
>> 
>> It's available on many GNU/Linux distros, as a package.  It is for
>> Gentoo, and perhaps for Debian/Ubuntu as well.
>> 
>> It is extensible/programmable, so that various interfaces could perhaps
>> be possible.  I spent a little time years ago setting up an Addresses
>> database, with output formats to automatically set up a LaTeX header
>> for each marked address.  It was a bit klunky, to be sure, but it
>> worked REALLY well, and it worked the way I wanted it to.
>> 
>> It's an old piece of software.  I tried it lately with my address DB,
>> with Emacs 23, so it may just still work fine.
>> 
>> In the examples directory, above, are a rolodex database, possibly
>> somewhat similar to what I had going, and some other examples.   There
>> has been some relatively recent effort into maintaining EDB.
>> 
>> I write this not as a programmer, but a user, just to point to
>> something that has worked well for me in the past.
>> 
>> Alan Davis
>> 
>> 
>> 
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