Gour writes: > what do you think about BBDB-v3? Many people like it, but I must admit > I haven't take closer look at it?
i haven't tried using BBDB-v3, only BBDB-v2, several years ago. i found the latter, hm, 'clunky'. (Similar to how, until the advent of mu4e, i found no Emacs-based MUA with maildir support which i found as usable as Mutt.) And iirc, part of the problem might have been lack of (full) support for Australian phone numbers and/or postcodes, which at the time i really didn't want to wrestle with. In any case, org-contacts.el has nowwhetted my appetite for an Org-based contacts solution - given the slogan "Your life in plain text", contacts management certainly seems to me to fall within Org's remit. :-) > However, I wonder whether it's flexible enough to define one's own > properties of format of one's contact data and what about syncing? i've just had a quick scan through the BBDB-v3 source, and superficially, it looks like the properties are hard-coded. Regarding syncing, the BBDB page on SourceForge suggests that existing support for this might be rather limited - i only see mention of PalmPilot syncing. i would certainly be interested to know if anyone's created CardDAV support for BBDB - given that Google Contacts can be accessed via CardDAV, and given (what i imagine to be) the large number of people syncing their Android phone's contacts with Google Contacts, such support might well be in demand! > I wish you all the best hoping org-mode users will find decent solution > for handling contacts soon. Thank you! i'm hoping my ongoing work with org-vcard might eventually contribute towards this. :-) Alexis.