On Wednesday 17 December 2003 14:44, Gabor Szabo wrote:
> I wonder what do others especially those providing consulting
> services use for contact management / todo list.
I once used a DOS shareware that could dial by name. After dumping
it (didn't use DOS anymore, and the modem was busy doing PPP) I kept
one thing -- The "contact list" was a flat text file with names and numbers
(pretty unusual for DOS/Windows programs).
I still use this file as my contact list:
- It was easy to augment with emails (I just put it in parenthesis after the
name.
- I added some cue strings (e.g: [home], [fax], [cellular])
- I don't need addresses (so I still use the original 80 char lines).
- I normally use an alias to clean DOS-CR and pipe through grep:
phones gabor
(Of course I use 'grep -i')
- It's easy on memory:
phones SCO
(what? no friends there?)
- I have a small hard copy (in small font) my wallet. For easy search
on the paper, it is sorted. Every time I add/modify a line, I do:
:%!sort
(sorry I'm a vi guy)
Cons: No hierarchy, no one-many relationships (so I have several lines
of the same person with different phones (home, office etc.)).
But still 'phones gabor' would list them all.
I'm still interested in something better but all the KDE/Gnome address book
aren't too appealing. Calendar is the big itch... I use korganizer but it's
really not up to the task).
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