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I've just kept my names in a flat file and used grep since forever (at least 35 years). If I want to make a change I just use a text editor.

A downside is that it doesn't integrate with all those fancy services, but the upside is it doesn't integrate with those fancy services either.

This ppl project has those advantages too

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Grep is so handy. I want to say I also used something like 'ar -i' on one of my systems for a while, but then it went away and I never looked it up again.

Probably The Silver Surfer. The CLI is `ag`. Often used as a replacement for `grep`.

https://github.com/ggreer/the_silver_searcher

https://geoff.greer.fm/ag/

I think you meant to say The Silver Searcher.

That's the one, thank you.

I really like the simplicity of the idea but feel like the elephant in the room is: What about having your contacts on mobile?

It looks like ppl has the ability to import from Google Contacts etc but without a two-way sync mechanism to keep the contacts on my phone up-to-date it's hard to see adopting this.

Maybe if there was the ability to do simple diff and apply like gmailctl that would be good enough.

You can just search a file on mobile. The lack of integration with spyware is a feature, not a bug.

That's great for a notepad but don't do anything for knowing who contacts in text messages and call logs, incoming calls, etc are. It feels like half of a solution to me.

Yeah, those integrations just aren’t worth it to me. I know that plenty of other people don’t mind the cost.

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