Documentation/Drafts/AddressBookTutorial

On this page, a simple Address Book Creating Howto is drafted. Whoever wants to improve it, please don't hesitate. Discussion happens on the Discussion Page or in the global Users Mailinglist].

Requirements
(just a first guess - may be refined iteratively):
 * 'data container' with name & address, birthday, phone, Mobile, email-address, other contact data (Homepage, IM, ...) photo, annotations
 * easy entering of data (manually, copy&paste, CSV import, ...)
 * tagging ?
 * search (by name, by - what else?)
 * output constraints:
 * row selection: all, filtered, sorted
 * column/field selection: ?
 * output formats:
 * list
 * card
 * piping to mail merge
 * output media:
 * screen (list, card)
 * odf documents (list, mail merge)
 * what else?

Very Simple Spreadsheet solution

 * ready to use, but really rather simple :-)
 * ODS file containing a macro [download link, 64 KB, not yet existing]