[SLL] address book / rolodex?

[Jeremy C. Reed]

On Wed, 28 Nov 2007, Clifford Snow wrote:

> I use Evolution, but it doesn't have a simple method to extract the data
> as plain text.  You can create a vcard from a list of contacts. With the
> ability to add tags to contacts, you can search on contacts with the
> desired tag to produce mailing lists.  

Thanks for the suggestion. I forgot about that option. My wife uses 
claws-mail (and before that sylpheed then sylpheed-claws). It has vcard -- 
but it only shows three fields: name, email address, and remarks. I will 
see if claws-mail supports the other fields (like phone number and mailing 
addresses). As that will be useful for her since she already uses address 
book for contacts (email only currently).

> I'm guessing that someone has written a script to convert from vcard to
> plain text.  

I found her system has csv2vcard. It is a simple perl script and clearly 
shows me the formats. If I don't find a converter I can write one based on 
it.

> > - maybe can use data with glabels -- maybe we should just use glabels?

> glabels is great for mailing labels and return address labels but it
> doesn't store the address information.  

That's what I thought.

Now that you reminded me of "vcard", I went back to freshmeat and found 
many converters and also some web-based address book programs. I don't 
want web-based. I found one more program:

Rolo (text based)
http://rolo.sourceforge.net/