From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Tim X Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Emacs as Address Book? Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 14:22:00 +1100 Organization: Rapt Technologies Message-ID: <87my1a4bon.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1261539768 22147 80.91.229.12 (23 Dec 2009 03:42:48 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2009 03:42:48 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 23 04:42:41 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1NNI7U-0008Bx-UN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 23 Dec 2009 04:42:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50467 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NNI7V-0008HU-1s for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:42:41 -0500 Original-Path: news.stanford.edu!usenet.stanford.edu!news.kjsl.com!news.alt.net!news-xfer.nntp.sonic.net!news.astraweb.com!border5.newsrouter.astraweb.com!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:6hK94laH7G9ZJhZI0DOQw3jXWcU= Original-Lines: 22 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: c622f62c.news.astraweb.com Original-X-Trace: DXC=Um9OnZ2j9m06fPZ:J:\J]NJj[A2jK=96[XK99=b\o12aD]>lYi?3E> Original-Xref: news.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:175741 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:70817 Archived-At: Steve Revilak writes: > A few months ago, I began using org-mode for general calendaring. > Lately, I've been wondering about address book applications for emacs. > > Do any of you use emacs as an address book? What package(s) do you > recommend? > > I've seen the Address Book package on Savannah [1], but the project's > download area is an empty directory [2]. bbdb [3] seems like a > reasonable contender. > > I'm mostly interested in a stand-alone address book, and not so > concerned with gnus, vm, etc integration. I use bbdb and have been for a long time. I find it works really well. The other nice thing about bbdb is that org has integration with bbdb, which means you an embed bbdb links into your org documents/files Tim -- tcross (at) rapttech dot com dot au