People 2 Markdown

This program takes the output of goobook for contacts and groups and creates markdown files for obsidian.

To create the contacts.json you could run something like this:

goobook dump_contacts > contacts.json

To create the groups.json you can run something like this:

goobook dump_groups > groups.json

Setup of goobook is described on the homepage of the program.

Then you can run people2md to create the markdown files. people2md accepts the following arguments:

• tags - a list of Google labels that will be applied in addition to the contact tag
• contacts - pass the path to contacts.json, defaulting to just the file name
• groups - pass the path to groups.json, defaulting to just the file name

You can dump the default templates to the current directory by calling people2md dump-templates.

To use changes templates pass -template-directory to people2md. There are five different templates:

• markdown.tmpl - provides the file structure
• phone.tmpl - used to print out phone numbers
• email.tmpl - used to print out email addresses
• address.tmpl - used to print out addresses
• person.tmpl - used to print out data of the person

To print out the call history and SMS you can provide SMS and calls using a backup file from SMS Backup and Restore (Pro). This is an Android only app. Due to a lack of iPhone and knowledge of it's ecosystem there is no support for it. Feel free to contribute.

Upcoming feature

• [ ] allow dumping of properties

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