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Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?


From: Russell Adams
Subject: Re: [Orgmode] Re: contact management in org-mode?
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2009 22:26:07 -0500
User-agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17)

> Now, I know this won't give me synchronization. Unfortunately I think
> that's a lost cause currently, I just want a way to find a contact.
> 
> Fast finding on the CLI?
> 
> awk 'BEGIN {RS="\n\n\\* " ; IGNORECASE=1} /chief/ {print $0}' Contacts.org 
> 
> I can even adapt that to give me emails for mutt.
> 
> Yes there's no way to push this to CSV and back, but I could write
> something in an hour in Perl to do so. (feature idea! Export
> column-view as csv...)
> 
> I thought I'd post here for feedback prior to committing my contacts
> to this format.


Looking into this some more, export is really easy. I can just use a
dynamic block to store column view in whatever format I choose, and
export then search & replace ',' for '|'. That is minimal effort!

Sparse searches in column view, hierarchy organization, etc. I'm
trying to find a problem here.

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