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Re: [O] BBDB(3) or org-contacts


From: David Rogers
Subject: Re: [O] BBDB(3) or org-contacts
Date: Mon, 07 Jan 2013 22:46:39 -0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.2 (berkeley-unix)

Gour <address@hidden> writes:

> Hello,
>
> I've decided to use Gnus for my mail news (converted my present setup
> to Maildirs served by locally running dovecot, but need some time to
> setup Gnus) and wonder what do you recommend for keeping my contacts?
>
> Besides keeping  contacts just as Gnus addressbook, I'd like to store
> some extra data for some contacts like date-of-birth, place-of-birth,
> time-of-birth as well as to keep records for my counseling clients
> about their appointments, iow. notes about every session they had with
> the ability to perform some custom-based searches.
>
> Based on this description it seems that org-contacts is more suitable
> for the task than BBDB(3) offering ability to have custom format, easy
> editing of contacts etc., but I do wonder about scalability considering
> the following post
> (http://www.hardakers.net/code/bbdb-to-org-contacts/) where the author
> 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)."
>
> Any hint?

One caution is that org-contacts is not (as far as I know) getting any
attention anymore - its author has (last I heard) moved to a
Google-based contacts manager.

-- 
David R




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