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Seconding a text file. I keep addresses this way, too. So does my father. So did my grandfather. I have their files, as well.
by westcort 2y ago
Seconding a text file. I keep addresses this way, too. So does my father. So did my grandfather. I have their files, as well.
- enasterosophes 2y agoDo you mind if I ask what format you've settled on? Having a system evolve over multiple generations means you must have pruned out all the bad ways to do it. I've got this vision of a Neal Stephenson story which will never be written about a family in the 22nd century that has kept all their personal contacts in Git for over 100 years ...
- froggerexpert 2y agoConsider https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ https://www.gnu.org/software/recutils/ Plain text, but with querying, and likely exporters/importers into calendars.
- westcort 2y agoThank you! This is interesting!
- westcort 2y agoGrandpa was an early adopter of computers due to his work in cryptography, which started even before WWII. He wrote his files mostly in WordStar, and a few other formats that are still readable. Most of these are on a drive and on 5.25 and 3.5 inch floppy disks. Dad uses KEDIT, and now Notepad++, probably because KEDIT was popular in Princeton at the time. I think John McPhee still uses KEDIT. I use plain text files and HTML.