Re: Emacs as Address Book?

[Tim X]

Steve Revilak <steve@srevilak.net> 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
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