[Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?

[Gregory J. Grubbs]

org-mode may attain self-hosting status before Clojure does!

-Greg

(after writing some elisp to translate my BBDB entries into
property-laden org-mode entries)

Russell Adams <address@hidden> writes:
>> Now, I know this won't give me synchronization. Unfortunately I think
>> that's a lost cause currently, I just want a way to find a contact.
>> 
>> Fast finding on the CLI?
>> 
>> awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n\n\\* " ; IGNORECASE=1} /chief/ {print $0}' Contacts.org 
>> 
>> I can even adapt that to give me emails for mutt.
>> 
>> Yes there's no way to push this to CSV and back, but I could write
>> something in an hour in Perl to do so. (feature idea! Export
>> column-view as csv...)
>> 
>> I thought I'd post here for feedback prior to committing my contacts
>> to this format.
>
>
> Looking into this some more, export is really easy. I can just use a
> dynamic block to store column view in whatever format I choose, and
> export then search & replace ',' for '|'. That is minimal effort!
>
> Sparse searches in column view, hierarchy organization, etc. I'm
> trying to find a problem here.
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