Alexis <flexibe...@gmail.com> writes: > 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.
If by properties you mean arbitrary key-value data, BBDB does indeed support that -- properties are known as "fields", and "xfields" are user-designated fields. Labels and values can be arbitrarily designated by the user, and with a bit of coding you can format them in unusual ways, or have them "do things". > 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.
