On Thu, Oct 29, 2009 at 05:00:05PM +0100, Richard Riley wrote:
> The lack of sync with google contacts is a real big "minus" for bbdb :
> but I still use it over any other emacs solution for contact management.
>
> Possibly the best solution would be a gnus method that talks to
> evolution or google contacts directly? From that way it would be
> relatively trivial I guess to re-write as bbdb using bbdb methods.
I don't imagine the sync issue ever going away. There's no perfect
sync, even in the world of other proprietary OSes.
My ideal contact manager at the moment would have:
- Text interface (ncurses or emacs)
- Open backend
- sqlite would be fine, or text tables, vcard/CSV not required
- Bonus points for VC compatible
- Dynamic field support & mapping
- Perfect import/export
- Export to CSV should include all fields
- Exporting, clearing the DB, and reimporting should result in
identical contacts w/ custom fields like nothing ever changed
- Row view
- Customizable sorting
- Customizable visible fields
- Flexible searching
- Contact view (ie: form)
- External methods (ie: mutt query, cli search & dump)
Then there may be the ability to later bind such a program to SyncML
or another sync library to get rid of the sync issue.
My problem is atm nothing like this exists.
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