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girzel / ebdb

An EIEIO port of BBDB, Emacs' contact-management package
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Google Contacts Sync #36

Closed ddoherty03 closed 7 years ago

ddoherty03 commented 7 years ago

While everyone is making wishes, here's mine. Provide two-way sync between ebdb and google contacts.

Having my phone world and desktop world re-united, contacts-wise, would be really nice.

girzel commented 7 years ago

Hi! I'm not actually sure what mechanism Google Contacts uses for syncing, but I'll do my best to support it. I'm currently working on export/import/database support for Vcard (see #3 ), and once that's done will tackle syncing with various backends, CardDav first (see #4 ).

I have no idea if Google's contacts system speaks CardDav, but if it doesn't I'll do my best to figure out how it works. No promises on timeline, though.

ddoherty03 commented 7 years ago

I currently use org-caldav to get sync my org appointments, etc., with a Nextcloud server that I have running on an AWS server. My phone syncs to this as well, so I get calendar syncing in two hops, with Nextcloud as the hub in the process. Nextcloud also has a Contacts app section, so that might work there as well. Thanks for looking at my aggessive wishes!

girzel commented 7 years ago

Good! Nextcloud is built on SabreDAV, which speaks CardDAV, and that's what I'll support when #4 is done. I'm going to close this as a duplicate of that bug.

ddoherty03 commented 7 years ago

OK. That would be awesome.