On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:36:22PM +0000, Thomas Levine wrote: > I want to keep track of some information about people, and I have an > idea of what I want the user interface to be like. Perhaps is there > already something close to what I want? > > I want to record the following information about each contact. > > * Name > * Phone number > * Email address > * Postal address > > I want each contact to have its own file. I will put all of the > contacts' files in a directory tree. I can look up contacts by filename > or with a search. (grep will probably be fine.) The software would do > the following. > > * Check that I have formatted the contacts' files properly. > * Convert into formats for other programs (my email client, notably) > > If I don't get any other ideas, I will probably write something that > uses vCard as the format. vCard is nice because search engines (like > recoll) will likely recognize it. The main thing I'm wondering is > whether there is a nicer format that vCard. >
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