Google Contacts, like most of their products, keeps changing and getting worse. Somewhere along the way it deleted all of the street address information from my contacts!

Ideally looking for a tool that checks these boxes:

  • Open-source
  • Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients
  • Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)
  • Stores contact info securely (encrypted)
  • Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

It seems like a tall order, but KeePass has managed to do that with their password vault, so why not contact info?

Any success stories out there?

  • Life is Tetris@leminal.space
    1·
    15 hours ago

    I never liked the fact there is a contacts app which other apps can tap into.

    I have started using an org-mode file with entries that have tel: or callto: properties. I lose vCard exportability, but I can use the file as-is instead.

    * Open-source

    Yes

    * Android, Web, and (if necessary) Linux and Windows clients

    Emacs on larger devices, Orgzly on Android

    * Stores contact info locally (i.e. self-hosted)

    Yes

    * Stores contact info securely (encrypted)

    Unencrypted, but if you don’t allow apps other than syncing apps the permission to access all files, it may not matter as much

    * Can store in a cloud location (e.g. Sync, Dropbox)

    I just have Syncthing set up to sync those files too

    • Life is Tetris@leminal.space
      1·
      15 hours ago

      Oh, and. Now I don’t need a separate bookmarks app, a separate notes app, a separate todo list app, syncing mechanisms for them, or a mechanism to search through all of them.