ppl
Productivity
address book
SHOW HN2012
106points
54comments
#202of 1,677 in 2012
Top 13%of 2012 by points
How HN took it
CuriousMostly questions and neutral comments
12 positive, 22 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 4 critical, out of 40 comments about the project. Thread score +0.15.
Idea: 5 for, 2 againstExecution: 3 for, 2 againstDesign: 1 for, 0 against
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What HN said
What people liked
Fits command line workflow and is Unixy
From 2 comments
There's abook[1], but yours seems different in design. (Main difference at a glance: Yours doesn't work on captured interface. So in that sense, yours is more Unixy.) One nice…
telemachos on HNvery cool thing .. I will start using it
ing33k on HN
Mutt integration added quickly
From 2 comments
Is it me or was that some pretty fast turnaround? Kudos to you, sir.
asveikau on HNBeat me to it; I was going to suggest exactly that. Keeping everything in one place, accessible via the shell, would be perfect, and this looks less awkward than maintaining a…
koralatov on HN
Clean git-based design
From 2 comments
It uses git, so you can keep your address book on as many different computers as you want and use commands such as "git push" and "git pull" to handle the synchronisation. There…
h2s on HNReally nice! I can Create a remote repo on Dropbox and have a cloud based service :)
shad0wfax on HN
Objections
No sync with phone or Google or iCloud contacts
From 4 comments
Looks very cute, and might be useful (not having to leave the terminal is always good), but I think I speak for many others saying that I don't want to start a new address book…
n0nick on HNDoes it sync with Google contacts/my phone?
antihero on HNNo. See https://github.com/h2s/ppl/issues/5 The semantics of contact data exposed via the Contacts API is supposed to be quite close to vcard, which would make pushing data from…
chalst on HNAgreed. I'd use this in an instant if it would read from my Mac Address Book which syncs w/ iCloud and all my devices (as well as corporate Exchange server)
skram on HN
Ruby is not installed on many systems
From 1 comment
Like others, I am impressed with this app and the fact it is written for the command line. As the author is posting here: why using ruby, a language which seems to be missing…
keithpeter on HN
Syntax and design criticized
From 1 comment
Things I like are codename-per-contact and the fact that there's a command line tool supplied with exit codes. I don't like almost everything else, including the syntax ('ppl…
contingencies on HN
Missing postal address and import support at launch
From 2 comments
There seems to be no command for adding the contact's postal address.
nicky0 on HNVery nice. But how would i get my existing contacts into ppl? Typing them all in would be a chore. An import function bout be quite neat to make a transition from other…
tucosan on HN
Requests
Sync with iCloud, Google or other address books
From 2 comments
Looks very cute, and might be useful (not having to leave the terminal is always good), but I think I speak for many others saying that I don't want to start a new address book…
n0nick on HNAgreed. I'd use this in an instant if it would read from my Mac Address Book which syncs w/ iCloud and all my devices (as well as corporate Exchange server)
skram on HN
Exporter from abook
From 1 comment
There's abook[1], but yours seems different in design. (Main difference at a glance: Yours doesn't work on captured interface. So in that sense, yours is more Unixy.) One nice…
telemachos on HN
Import existing contacts
From 1 comment
Very nice. But how would i get my existing contacts into ppl? Typing them all in would be a chore. An import function bout be quite neat to make a transition from other…
tucosan on HN
Support for multiple entries per category
From 1 comment
One issue that will come up with any exporter: abook can handle multiple entries for each category, and (I think?) ppl can't yet. So, at the moment, I'm not sure there's a way to…
telemachos on HN
Questions
Does it sync with Google contacts or phone
From 1 comment
Does it sync with Google contacts/my phone?
antihero on HN
Why Ruby instead of C, Python or Perl
From 1 comment
Like others, I am impressed with this app and the fact it is written for the command line. As the author is posting here: why using ruby, a language which seems to be missing…
keithpeter on HN
How to access the data from other programming languages
From 1 comment
There are some way to access this data with any programming language? like phyton or ruby ? Very interesting..
HugoDias on HN
Alternatives named
abook
From 1 comment
There's abook[1], but yours seems different in design. (Main difference at a glance: Yours doesn't work on captured interface. So in that sense, yours is more Unixy.) One nice…
telemachos on HN
Alfred app on Mac
From 1 comment
To search my adress book without leaving the keyboard I use Alfred app[1] ( on Mac ). It is a god send. [1]http://www.alfredapp.com/
knes on HN
Grep and a text file
From 1 comment
For a short while I was using grep and a text file as an address book mostly because like this I could easily add in free form. The reason why I switched to a AddressBook.app and…
_glass on HN
Logbook
From 1 comment
Looks great! Reminds me of when I built Logbook - store notes on Gists from CLI. The mindset is amazingly the same :) Though I offloaded most of the CLI processing to Thor, and…
jondot on HN