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

[Matt Lundin]

Bastien <address@hidden> writes:

> Hi Julien,
>
> Julien Danjou <address@hidden> writes:
>
>> Following my short presentation at the Paris OrgCamp, I've now written a
>> page and officially released org-contacts. It is a contact manager based
>> on Org, that can possibly replace BBDB for certain usage.
>>
>>    http://julien.danjou.info/org-contacts.html
>
> I've played around with it, and I can already see the benefit.  When
> org-contacts will insinuate into Gnus, that will be a real win.

Agreed. Thanks, Julien!

I'm curious how others are planning to organize contacts (i.e., in a
single file or scattered throughout agenda files).

I tried org-contacts with my rather large agenda files, but because it
uses org-scan-tags instead of regexp searches, queries are slow. E.g.,
org-contacts-filter takes approximately 15-20 seconds.

Also, the function org-contacts uses a tags/property search and then a
skip function. Would it perhaps be quicker to use org-search-view to
match against two regexps (the name and the contacts email property)?

Best,
Matt