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Re: [O] BBDB(3) or org-contacts
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Nick Dokos |
Subject: |
Re: [O] BBDB(3) or org-contacts |
Date: |
Wed, 09 Jan 2013 15:12:12 -0500 |
Daniel Clemente <address@hidden> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> El Mon, 7 Jan 2013 21:03:24 +0100 Gour va escriure:
> > of bbdb-to-org-contacts converter wrote: "Once I point org-contacts at
> > my newly generated file containing 831 records it make org-contacts
> > really really slow down. I wouldn't care about the normal record
> > searching process for just looking something up, but it makes loading a
> > message in gnus unusable (5 second delay per message)."
> >
>
> I use org-contacts with Wanderlust and I see it makes contact completion
> very slow (5 seconds for each keypress, and that's with only 200 contacts).
> Therefore I use its infrastructre (because I like it) but I don't run its
> code. I'll explain myself:
>
> I keep this structure in an .org file:
>
> ** John von Neumann
> :mathematic:
> :PROPERTIES:
> :EMAIL: address@hidden
> :END:
> - some info
>
>
> I use tags, I store e-mails, and I can write any infos, subsections,
> appointments, tasks, etc. which I want; even clock in.
> If I want to search for a contact, I simply open that buffer and use C-s or
> do a tags search.
> You can use org-capture to fill that file.
>
>
> I strongly prefer this system over BBDB.
>
I use bbdb3 for my (admittedly, very simple) needs, but it can be
augmented with this kind of information fairly easily: "all problems in
computer science can be solved by another level of indirection" (Alan
Perlis).
Bind some key to org-open-at-point-global. Add another field to the
bbdb entry with a link to get you to the org-contacts entry. You can
even get a backlink to go from the org-contacts entry to the bbdb entry.
For example:
I have F7 bound to a sparse keymap for all things org, so I do
(define-key f7-keymap "o" 'org-open-at-point-global)
to bind org-open-at-point-global to "F7 o".
I add a "link" entry to the bbdb record:
,----
| Daniel Clemente
| mail: address@hidden
| link: [[file:~/lib/org/crm.org::Daniel Clemente]]
`----
I can then follow the link with ``F7 o'' - if the headline does not
exist, it creates it and then I can modify it to make into a bbdb link:
,----
| * [[bbdb:Daniel Clemente][Daniel Clemente]]
`----
making it easy to go back and forth.
HTH,
Nick
- [O] BBDB(3) or org-contacts, Gour, 2013/01/07
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Wes Hardaker, 2013/01/08
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Gour, 2013/01/08
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Eric S Fraga, 2013/01/13
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Gour, 2013/01/14
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Eric S Fraga, 2013/01/14
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Gour, 2013/01/15
- Re: [O] OBBDB(3) or org-contacts, Eric S Fraga, 2013/01/15