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Advice for a contact app (self.degoogle)
submitted 2 days ago by swordgeek to c/[email protected]
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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?

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago

Nextcloud contacts gives you CardDav, so it works with Android, iOS, and any number of Linux/Windows/Mac clients. Thunderbird certainly, and many other desktop mail clients. (Don't know about a Linux or Windows app limited to just contact management over CardDav, but it's probably out there.)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

You can use Tutanota app for contacts

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

you may want to go with cardDAV. you can self-host radicale, sabre, & baïkal. some email providers even offer it

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 days ago

Honestly, maybe I'm old fashioned, but I just use the AOSP contacts app on the phone and then export a CSV file and keep a copy of that in my database on KeyPass.