Re: bbdb or bbdb3 or org-contacts

[joakim@verona.se]

Daimrod <daimrod@gmail.com> writes:

> Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:
>
>> Hi Dieter,
>>
>> Dieter Wilhelm <dieter@duenenhof-wilhelm.de> writes:
>>
>>> What do you advise, what is already usable and what is the way
>>> ahead, still bbdb or bbdb3 or already org-contacts?
>>
>> BBDB is great.  org-contacts.el is too slow when you have many
>> contacts, and it is not really maintained anymore.
>
> I've started to use org-contacts.el. I haven't (yet) problem with its
> speed but I've improved the completion mecanism which prevented me to
> use it. When I'll finish to document/comment it, I'll post it here.

I would be very interested in having a look.
I migrated from bbdb to org-contacts, but it turned out to be too slow,
so now I mostly isearch for the contact I want.

Recently I've bee thinking of trying a strategy where bbdb could act as
a cache for org-contacts, but I havent tried it yet. It shouldnt be too
hard I think. org-contacts can generate a list of all contacts, that you
then iterate and generate the bbdb database from. It might be a useful
addition in any case.

>> Best,

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Joakim Verona