Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-12-24 Thread Thomas Levine
I wound up with this. https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bguo Each contact is a single file, like this one, http://src.thomaslevine.com/bguo/artifact/f24d0f9bdbf3f76e and they must all be in the same directory, like this one. http://src.thomaslevine.com/bguo/dir?ci=tip&name=example/orig.bguo This is t

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-10 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
> > If you want, I'll add a license file and publish on github (or any other > > git server). > > > > Kurt > > > > I would be interested in that. I also keep my addresses in vcard, > because I can sync vcards from my phone onto my computer without any > fancy middleware. https://github.com/ku

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-10 Thread spaceman
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. abook abook stores all contact information in a single file and rewrites

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-10 Thread Kurt Van Dijck
> 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 >

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Joseph Graham
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 07:36:22PM +, 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

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
On Wed, Nov 09, 2016 at 09:25:06PM +0100, hiro wrote: > just sell them to some spam company, then harvest them again later Oh, never, what would a spam company do with my specific contacts, for specific subjects, I am not to harm my people. JL > On 11/9/16, Jean Louis wrote: > > It's good to s

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread hiro
just sell them to some spam company, then harvest them again later On 11/9/16, Jean Louis wrote: > It's good to start tracking people. I've made this decision long time > ago, today I have 64000+ contacts in the PostgreSQL database, and > making money on it. It is certainly not a suckless approac

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Jean Louis
It's good to start tracking people. I've made this decision long time ago, today I have 64000+ contacts in the PostgreSQL database, and making money on it. It is certainly not a suckless approach. As for simple, approach, if you are using directories for contacts, why not use simply files for phon

Re: [dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Evan Gates
On Wed, Nov 9, 2016 at 11:36 AM, Thomas Levine <_...@thomaslevine.com> 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 inf

[dev] Cataloging of contacts

2016-11-09 Thread Thomas Levine
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