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

2013-01-15 Thread Gour
On Tue, 15 Jan 2013 08:44:03 +1030 Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: Not with BBDB, either version. I have 760 contacts in BBDB. That's good to hear. Thank you. You can have any number of simple fields labelled whatever you want. I am not sure if you can define new structured ones

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

2013-01-15 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gour, I see that you have posted on the bbdb mailing list so I suggest we move this discussion there where you will find plenty of people able to help! We're well OT with respect to org related discussion now... cheers, eric -- : Eric S Fraga, GnuPG: 0xC89193D8FFFCF67D : in Emacs

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

2013-01-14 Thread Gour
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:34:58 +1030 Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: I use bbdb3; never got to grips with org-contacts and I have too many contacts in any case. No performance issues? bbdb3 provides a subtle improvement to bbdb2: better more logical key bindings and less surprising

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

2013-01-14 Thread Myles English
Hi Gour, Eric S Fraga writes: Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: Do you use bbdb3 and what are important things it brings over bbdb2? Org will interpret the anniversary (e.g. birthdays, wedding anniversary, other dates) field in bbdb entries to bring in information into the agenda

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

2013-01-14 Thread Gour
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 10:04:28 + Myles English mylesengl...@gmail.com wrote: I used to use gnus but changed to mu4e. My gnus broke during the change to emacs24 and I couldn't find the help out there to fix it. Mu4e has good documentation and a very helpful developer. It was very easy to

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

2013-01-14 Thread Russell Adams
I am a confirmed gnus user. No other email system comes close to doing what gnus can do. Given the large volume of email I get, splitting and scoring are essential to survival! Integration with bbdb is also obviously key for me. Slightly offtopic, but I'm a Mutt user that's eyeballed Gnus

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

2013-01-14 Thread Daimrod
Russell Adams rlad...@adamsinfoserv.com writes: I am a confirmed gnus user. No other email system comes close to doing what gnus can do. Given the large volume of email I get, splitting and scoring are essential to survival! Integration with bbdb is also obviously key for me. Slightly

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

2013-01-14 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:34:58 +1030 Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: I use bbdb3; never got to grips with org-contacts and I have too many contacts in any case. No performance issues? Not with BBDB, either version. I have 760 contacts in BBDB.

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

2013-01-14 Thread Gour
On Mon, 14 Jan 2013 08:34:58 +1030 Eric S Fraga e.fr...@ucl.ac.uk wrote: I use bbdb3; never got to grips with org-contacts and I have too many contacts in any case. No performance issues? bbdb3 provides a subtle improvement to bbdb2: better more logical key bindings and less surprising

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

2013-01-13 Thread Eric S Fraga
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: Do you use bbdb3 and what are important things it brings over bbdb2? I use bbdb3; never got to grips with org-contacts and I have too many contacts in any case. bbdb3 provides a subtle improvement to bbdb2: better more logical key bindings and less

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

2013-01-09 Thread Wes Hardaker
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: But I certainly like the org-mode format much much much better than bbdb(3). Which I'm still using, unfortunately. Do you use bbdb3 and what are important things it brings over bbdb2? I do, and not much. Slightly better highlighting and redefined set of key

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

2013-01-09 Thread Gour
On Wed, 09 Jan 2013 08:08:15 -0800 Wes Hardaker wjhns...@hardakers.net wrote: I do, and not much. Slightly better highlighting and redefined set of key bindings and thoughts (IE, you need to re-learn stuff too though). Thank you. I have tried at times to switch away from gnus. Every time

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

2013-01-08 Thread Wes Hardaker
Gour g...@atmarama.net writes: 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

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

2013-01-08 Thread Gour
On Tue, 08 Jan 2013 09:16:41 -0800 Wes Hardaker wjhns...@hardakers.net wrote: FYI, I tried (again) to use org-contacts a while back and still see the same speed problems. It's great for small contacts, but not for large. :-( I think what would be needed would be to read the file and store