How do you keep contacts in Fedora/KDE?

[Max Pyziur]

On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:

> On Mon, 2013-04-01 at 14:59 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
>> As a matter of interest, how do those of you running Fedora/KDE
>> keep your contacts?
>> I have a rather messy combination of Google contacts,
>> KAddressBook and LDAP,
>> but would like to organise something simpler.
>> I suspect the simplest solution might be to go over entirely
>> to Google contacts, as I want to keep my contacts in sync
>> with my Android phone.
>>
>> But what do people running Fedora/KDE usually do?
>
> Speaking only for myself, I just keep everything in Google Contacts (I
> also have an Android phone).
>
> Cue flame-war about evil intentions of Google, etc. ...

While this is a KDE-oriented question my experience may be useful to this 
discussion; my method is to use one Desktop as 
having all PIM data: contacts, calendar, memos, todos. For this I use 
Evolution.

In order to sync it with my Android phone, I use different cloud services, 
with the exception of Google.

The services that I have tried are: Funambol(actually onemediahub.com), 
MemoToo, and Everdroid. Each has its peculiarities and advantages; Memotoo 
is the one that I prefer currently. Everdroid has an advantage of syncing 
text messages (easier to review them in bulk on a webpage than on a 
phone).

In order to sync from the Desktop to the cloud I use syncevolution's gui.

On the Android phone, there are Apps tied to the particular services. On 
the phone, I've deleted the contents of the local phonebook, and just use 
the Memotoo one. Memotoo has the capability to delete its current contents 
and overwrite it with the contents of the server. That way any duplication 
is avoided.

Memotoo charges a fee (~$1.50/month, I think); more nuisance than anything 
else.

The syncevolution email list is very helpful in sorting out issues.

> poc
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fyi & hth,

Max Pyziur
pyz at brama.com