Advice for a contact app
from swordgeek@lemmy.ca to degoogle@lemmy.ml on 03 Jul 21:25
https://lemmy.ca/post/47332657

Google Contacts, like most of their products, keeps changing and getting worse. Somewhere along the way it deleted all of the street address information from my contacts!

Ideally looking for a tool that checks these boxes:

It seems like a tall order, but KeePass has managed to do that with their password vault, so why not contact info?

Any success stories out there?

#degoogle

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lemmyuser68@sopuli.xyz on 03 Jul 21:30 next collapse

You can use Tutanota app for contacts

jinx@lemmy.zip on 03 Jul 23:51 next collapse

you may want to go with cardDAV. you can self-host radicale, sabre, & baïkal. some email providers even offer it

shortwavesurfer@lemmy.zip on 04 Jul 00:42 next collapse

Honestly, maybe I’m old fashioned, but I just use the AOSP contacts app on the phone and then export a CSV file and keep a copy of that in my database on KeyPass.

tetrislife@leminal.space on 04 Jul 06:03 collapse

I never liked the fact there is a contacts app which other apps can tap into.

I have started using an org-mode file with entries that have tel: or callto: properties. I lose vCard exportability, but I can use the file as-is instead.

* Open-source

Yes

* Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients

Emacs on larger devices, Orgzly on Android

* Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)

Yes

* Stores contact info securely (encrypted)

Unencrypted, but if you don’t allow apps other than syncing apps the permission to access all files, it may not matter as much

* Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

I just have Syncthing set up to sync those files too

tetrislife@leminal.space on 04 Jul 06:06 collapse

Oh, and. Now I don’t need a separate bookmarks app, a separate notes app, a separate todo list app, syncing mechanisms for them, or a mechanism to search through all of them.