Gour <g...@atmarama.net> writes: > Hello, > > I've decided to use Gnus for my mail news (converted my present setup > to Maildirs served by locally running dovecot, but need some time to > setup Gnus) and wonder what do you recommend for keeping my contacts? > > Besides keeping contacts just as Gnus addressbook, I'd like to store > some extra data for some contacts like date-of-birth, place-of-birth, > time-of-birth as well as to keep records for my counseling clients > about their appointments, iow. notes about every session they had with > the ability to perform some custom-based searches. > > 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 > (http://www.hardakers.net/code/bbdb-to-org-contacts/) where the author > of bbdb-to-org-contacts converter wrote: "Once I point org-contacts at > my newly generated file containing 831 records it make org-contacts > really really slow down. I wouldn't care about the normal record > searching process for just looking something up, but it makes loading a > message in gnus unusable (5 second delay per message)." > > Any hint?
One caution is that org-contacts is not (as far as I know) getting any attention anymore - its author has (last I heard) moved to a Google-based contacts manager. -- David R
