I haven’t been writing about Emacs lately. Here’s my outline so that you can help keep me honest. =) My next chapter is about the Big Brother Database (BBDB) and contact management in Emacs, which is one of the things that made people laugh when I showed my Emacs configuration at DemoCamp in Toronto. Anyway, here’s what I’m planning to write about:

Chapter 6: Being Big Brother (30 pages)

• Why use Emacs to manage your contacts?
  What is BBDB?
• Project xxx: Set up BBDB
  Project xxx: Import contacts: CSV, card
  Project xxx: Create a record
  Project xxx: Search records
• Mail
  Project xxx: Integrate BBDB with Mail
  Project xxx: Notice e-mail changes
  Project xxx: Filter mail according to record
  Project xxx: Categorize contacts with mail aliases
  Project xxx: Personalize greetings
  Project xxx: Personalize signatures
  Project xxx: Mail merge
  Project xxx: Track last contact
• Filtering records
  Project xxx: Show a phone list
  Project xxx: Show an address list
  Project xxx: Show no contact since
  Project xxx: Show tag queries
  Project xxx: Remember birthdays
• More data
  Project xxx: Snarf records
  Project xxx: Add pictures
  Project xxx: Export contacts
  Project xxx: Synchronize contacts
  Project xxx: Synchronize with LinkedIn