offline encrypted address book
Hello everybody,
even though I am not a trisquel user (I use Debian) I really appreciate your work and like this forum. That's the reason why I ask my question here.
May sound like stupid to some of you, but only now after years of being aware of the internet control I decided to get rid of all the awful stuff in my virtual life (gmail? Yes, I have it. Facebook? Too.).
It is a slow process and I would like your support for one problem.
Once I'll shut down all my accounts and stuff I will find myself with the necessity of keeping the contact details of many of the people I know. So, where to put it?
My first idea was to just use a spreadsheet, but it not really efficient (cant do things like "sort by name", or "display contact with phone number only", "sort by country" etc.) and I should encrypt it to make it a but safer.
I also thought of writing one down myself but I'm not really confident with encryption, so I can also come up with a functioning python program but I would not be sure of how to protect it.
Is there any free program to do that? GUI does not matter.
Thank you very much for reading my post and, eventually, for helping me out.
Any email client (Evolution for instance) can manage your contacts. If you want flexibility, just use a text file and learn the POSIX text processing commands ('sort', 'awk', etc.).
More options:
- osmo http://clayo.org/osmo/
- GNOME Contacts https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Contacts
Keeping my agenda in local and not in a remote server is what made me use an email client some years ago.
Thanks for your answers guys,
in the end I just used GNUmeric because:
- The files are really small
- The files are readable from any computer or mobile phone, in case of need
- Easy to encrypt
I just had to overcome the little learning process for some functions in GNUmeric, done that is perfect, so far.
“mobile phones” are computers too. They just have a different form factor than desktop computers, usually use an ARM SoC instead of x86, and are among the worst offenders regarding how abuse their users' computing rights.
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well said!