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?
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.)
You can use Tutanota app for contacts
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
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.
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.
