Re: [Orgmode] Announcing org-contacts, a bbdb-like contact manager for Org

[Julien Danjou]

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 remember
> 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 interested
> 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 then
> have a way to "export" the whole contact into the kill-ring for pasting into
> 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 example,
> 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 already
> 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.

-- 
Julien Danjou
❱ http://julien.danjou.info

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