Re: [O] org-contacts or bbdb?

[henry atting]

Rasmus <address@hidden> writes:

> address@hidden (Peter Münster) writes:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I would like to manage my contacts, so that I can
>> - easily search them
>> - add new email addresses from gnus (summary buffer)
>> - complete email addresses in gnus (message buffer and prompts in
>>   mini-buffer)
>> - and perhaps more in the future
>>
>> Could you guide me please, what to choose, org-contacts or bbdb?
>> I don't see the advantages of the one or of the other...
>> TIA for any hints!
>
> I used org-contacts but now use bbdb3.  I think bbdb does it all and
> it's quite nice.
>
> I don't remember why I dropped Org-contant, but I think I found it hard
> to manage my contacts in the way I would ideally like to with it.
> [...]

+1

As I thougt that bbdb is no longer developped I switched to
org-contacts some time ago - which did not satisfy my needs in some
way. The (re-)discovery of bbdb3 elicits a sigh of relief...

Thanks,
henry


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