Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
Thomas H. George wrote: Any suggestions of other programs to consider? I am just using gmail contacts and it satisfies my day-to-day needs for an addressbook. Also, it is integrated with google voice. So making calls, linking email IDs, phone numbers etc., is super easy. Since it is web based, it is available on any computer with internet connection. I am aware that not everyone is comfortable storing their information in 3rd party servers. But I have not really found an open source alternative that offers this many features. So I am sticking with it (at least for now). raju -- Kamaraju S Kusumanchi http://malayamaarutham.blogspot.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jqei7f$vvk$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Sat, 26 May 2012 09:35:56 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I wrote several large programs in Pascal ten years ago but nothing since then. I'll take a quick look to see if it all comes back to me, otherwise I'll check out the other suggestions. The appeal of programming is the ability to add features as they occur to me in the future. By means of Linux Magazine¹ I just have read about this: *** http://www.giuspen.com/cherrytree/ cherrytree A hierarchical note taking application, featuring rich text and syntax highlighting, storing data in a single xml or sqlite file. *** It's not a classical address book but given that you need some extended capabilities and the application looks flexible enough (while aimed to note taking), it could be also an option worth to consider. ¹http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Productivity-Sauce/CherryTree-Feature-Laden-Note-Taking-Application Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jq0627$rhl$7...@dough.gmane.org
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Fri, 25 May 2012 14:45:26 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:17:52PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:39:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: Unpacking replacement rubrica ... (...) it wont work. It won't work or it does not work? I mean, despite the warning, can you run the application? :-? I meant the application will not run. What's the output when you launch it from command line? If it does not work, you can report it. Any suggestions of other programs to consider? I use Thunderbird's addressbook to manage my contacts which can easily handled (importing/exporting) by means of LDIF format. But if search for a standalone application, how about dlume? Although I can't find the site of the project, maybe it has been discontinued? :-? I did checkout dlume which has multiple fields for phone numbers, email addresses and url's but much of my information would have to be dumped in the notes field. Address books are not usually well suited for extended notes (even Thunderbird's has a small notes field), well... Oulook did a good job in this regard :-) Anyway, beyond the integrated address books of the big PIM managers (Thunderbird, Evolution and Kmail) I don't know of any standalone, off- line and GUI based application though I would like to see a java-based one... Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpqc11$dh7$7...@dough.gmane.org
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
Thanks for all the suggestions. I wrote several large programs in Pascal ten years ago but nothing since then. I'll take a quick look to see if it all comes back to me, otherwise I'll check out the other suggestions. The appeal of programming is the ability to add features as they occur to me in the future. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120526133556.ga8...@tomgeorge.info
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Sat, May 26, 2012 at 09:35:56AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: Thanks for all the suggestions. I wrote several large programs in Pascal ten years ago but nothing since then. I'll take a quick look to see if it all comes back to me, otherwise I'll check out the other suggestions. The appeal of programming is the ability to add features as they occur to me in the future. Have you had a look at abook for a starting point. Or when you say elaborate, do you mean heaps of eye candy? -- If you're not careful, the newspapers will have you hating the people who are being oppressed, and loving the people who are doing the oppressing. --- Malcolm X -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120527040147.GI14096@tal
OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: Unpacking replacement rubrica ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/load_files) WARNING: no list_type specified for schema of type list WARNING: invalid or missing list_type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files) WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files', locale `C': Schema specifies type list but doesn't specify the type of the list elements Setting up rubrica (2.0-1.2) ... Processing triggers for menu ... it wont work. Any suggestions of other programs to consider? Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525153908.ga8...@tomgeorge.info
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:39:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: Unpacking replacement rubrica ... (...) WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/load_files) WARNING: no list_type specified for schema of type list WARNING: invalid or missing list_type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files) WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files', locale `C': Schema specifies type list but doesn't specify the type of the list elements Setting up rubrica (2.0-1.2) ... Processing triggers for menu ... it wont work. It won't work or it does not work? I mean, despite the warning, can you run the application? :-? Any suggestions of other programs to consider? I use Thunderbird's addressbook to manage my contacts which can easily handled (importing/exporting) by means of LDIF format. But if search for a standalone application, how about dlume? Although I can't find the site of the project, maybe it has been discontinued? :-? Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpobbg$4v3$1...@dough.gmane.org
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:39:08 -0400 Thomas H. George li...@tomgeorge.info wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: [...] Any suggestions of other programs to consider? Tom Maybe just use sqlite3, it's not that hard. (A commandline program) -- keith km3...@gmail.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525201541.32aa7639a2165d655ae1c...@gmail.com
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 04:17:52PM +, Camaleón wrote: On Fri, 25 May 2012 11:39:08 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: Unpacking replacement rubrica ... (...) WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/load_files) WARNING: no list_type specified for schema of type list WARNING: invalid or missing list_type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files) WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files', locale `C': Schema specifies type list but doesn't specify the type of the list elements Setting up rubrica (2.0-1.2) ... Processing triggers for menu ... it wont work. It won't work or it does not work? I mean, despite the warning, can you run the application? :-? I meant the application will not run. Any suggestions of other programs to consider? I use Thunderbird's addressbook to manage my contacts which can easily handled (importing/exporting) by means of LDIF format. But if search for a standalone application, how about dlume? Although I can't find the site of the project, maybe it has been discontinued? :-? I did checkout dlume which has multiple fields for phone numbers, email addresses and url's but much of my information would have to be dumped in the notes field. Tom -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/jpobbg$4v3$1...@dough.gmane.org -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20120525184526.ga11...@tomgeorge.info
Re: OT Seach for Elaborate Address Book Program
On 2012-05-25 17:39, Thomas H. George wrote: I am planning to put a vast array of handwritten notes into some kind of order. Notes include names and associated information - addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, spouse's name, childrens' names, boat names, birthdays, misc information. An elaborate address book? An apt-cache search addressbook found several programs. rubric seemed the closest to meeting my needs but there was an installation problem: Unpacking replacement rubrica ... Processing triggers for hicolor-icon-theme ... Processing triggers for desktop-file-utils ... Processing triggers for gnome-menus ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Processing triggers for menu ... Processing triggers for gconf2 ... WARNING: failed to parse type name `boolean' WARNING: invalid or missing type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/load_files) WARNING: no list_type specified for schema of type list WARNING: invalid or missing list_type for schema (/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files) WARNING: failed to install schema `/schemas/apps/rubrica2/file/files', locale `C': Schema specifies type list but doesn't specify the type of the list elements Setting up rubrica (2.0-1.2) ... Processing triggers for menu ... it wont work. Any suggestions of other programs to consider? Tom Hi Tom, I use Thunderbird. The built-in addressbook amounts to not much, but with the extension More Functions for Addressbook you get a whole load more functionality. Next to the standard 4 custom fields you get 10 extra fields to use as you want and a whole set of additional e-mail fields. It will also greatly improve support for vCards, which is at a bare minimum without this extension. Kaddressbook used to be good too, but with the transition to Akonadi things have gone down the drain (at least as far as my usage scenario is concerned). Another option could be to use something like LibreOffice Base, Kexi, or Glom to make it yourself. Those applications are somewhat like MS Access, so you wouldn't have to go down the road of programming it yourself from scratch. On the other hand Lazarus (a Delphi-like GUI Builder on top of Free Pascal) has a fully functional example of an addressbook, which you could easily adapt to your own needs, if you would prefer to write it yourself and are familiar with Pascal. Grx HdV -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/4fc00188.4080...@gmail.com
