Excellent idea! Everything stays the same as I originally imagined, only extended in a transparent way (you could also store numbers, postal addresses etc)…
A friend complained that he could never remember even the start of email adresses. I proposed to use symlinks for that. :) (You need to add a realpath call to mailto then.)
This appears to be a description of an organization system for email addresses, not a tool per sé. You can implement it yourself already; it uses only common UNIX command-line tools.
Sime has a folder “adr” containing files whose names are email addresses. He uses ls, touch, and rm to list, create, and delete those files. He wrote a shell alias mailto that opens the program mail with the email that is the name of the given file – this is presumably so you can tab-complete filenames to simulate tab-completing email addresses.
Also, you can put real-names in the files and then grep your address book. :)
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Excellent idea! Everything stays the same as I originally imagined, only extended in a transparent way (you could also store numbers, postal addresses etc)…
A friend complained that he could never remember even the start of email adresses. I proposed to use symlinks for that. :) (You need to add a realpath call to mailto then.)
I love the simplicity. Add a few git-commands and you can easily sync the address book across computers through Github.
Please don’t put my contact information to GitHub…
Oh!
hmm. this is an interesting article about encrypting your external git repos and using dropbox: http://syncom.appspot.com/papers/git_encryption.txt. That would work.
Glad you like it!
I’ve updated the post to include a nice
mailtofunction for even simpler usage.Is this something that exists or is this an outline of an API that you want to build?
This appears to be a description of an organization system for email addresses, not a tool per sé. You can implement it yourself already; it uses only common UNIX command-line tools.
Sime has a folder “adr” containing files whose names are email addresses. He uses
ls,touch, andrmto list, create, and delete those files. He wrote a shell aliasmailtothat opens the programmailwith the email that is the name of the given file – this is presumably so you can tab-complete filenames to simulate tab-completing email addresses.Couldn’t put it better myself :)
the nice thing Gmail does is add contacts for you automatically… I guess you could do it with Imap and a script or two.