Maintaining contact info? Insidious Big Brother Database?

Rajiv Vyas rajiv1 at gmail.com
Sun Aug 21 04:12:25 UTC 2005


> Like always, Rajiv, a big fat vote of confidence for
> Emacs related stuff. I have seen plenty of posts on
> the BBDB list about syncing with Palm but I don't
> remember much. I just did http://www.sourceforge.net
> searched 'bbdb': SyncBBDB2 looks promising. Certainly
> you've already been there.
> 
>    I am gradually moving a lot of stuff to Tomboy (the best piece of
>    GUI-based software I recently found) but unfortunately, it's much more
>    harder to back up and retrive Tomboy data without using Tomboy then
>    Palm. I can still export Palm data as text or CVS and store it in my
>    Gmail as a text file making it more searchable.
> 
>    What are some of the non-traditional ways people are maintaing their
>    contact info across multiple platforms? Has someone tried Insidious
>    Big Brother Database for Emacs?
> 
> I have been using BBDB for two years, but not across
> different platforms. Sorry. But again, look at the
> list archive, a considerable portion of the posts on
> the list pertain to the Perl scripts that make it
> happen.



Thanks. I will look into BBDB more seriously. I really like Tomboy --
it's mono based and very platform dependend -- so will have to wait
for people to write plug-ins.

Plaxo is intersting and was among the very early users of it but for
some reason I have never quite got into it.

Rajiv



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> 
> Let me know if you want me to stop following up your
> Emacs related posts.
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