> 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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