I have been exploring org-contacts a bit, and variations of ways to collect entries using org-map-entries.
This gets me a list of contacts that have cmu in the email property and that have a LASTNAME property that starts with K. (org-map-entries (lambda () (org-entry-get (point) "EMAIL")) "EMAIL={cmu}+LASTNAME={^K}" org-contacts-files) Not all my contacts have a LASTNAME property though, sometimes the name is in the headline. Is there a way to test the ITEM special property in org-map-entries? I gathered from http://orgmode.org/manual/Special-properties.html that ITEM should contain the headline with stars, but it doesn't seem to be accessible in org-map-entries. Thanks. -- Professor John Kitchin Doherty Hall A207F Department of Chemical Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA 15213 412-268-7803 @johnkitchin http://kitchingroup.cheme.cmu.edu