Plugin to display a contact in obsidian?

[johncesta]

Just wondering if there are any plugins to display a contact in obsidian or to import a vcf file etc.

Thanks,

[Aonto]

Do you mean: apppro123/contacts-obsidian: manage contacts in obsidian (github.com)

OR adifyr/obsidian-chat-view: An elegant chat view for Obsidian pages. (github.com)

[a.lex]

I would be interested in something like this too. I have a separate vault to keep notes about my business contacts in Obsidian and I use tags to look them up and it would be really useful to show contact info from my address book.

I store my contacts with Fastmail which has CardDAV, but a simple solution would be to export all contacts into a single .vcf via MacOS’ Contacts and put that into the vault directory. That way, a plugin could show the appropriate contact when I open a file with a contact’s name.

[sidedwards]

I looked into creating a .vcf plugin for Obsidian, but it ended up being too much effort to get it to work with backlinks, references, etc.

I ended up creating a script that exports a group from my Contacts book into a folder with markdown files that I symlink into my Obsidian vault. Then, whenever I add or update contact details, I just run the script to sync it.

Here’s what the markdown output looks like:

Name

• Email: [email protected]
• Phone: +1 (555) 123-4567
• Birthday: [[20000101]]
• Anniversary: [[20100101]]
• Organization: Example Inc.
• Note: Some notes about the contact.
• Website: example.com
• Location: 37.7749° N, 122.4194° W
• Role: Some role
• Title: Some title
• Gender: F
• Language: English
• Address: 123 Main St, Suite 100, San Francisco

Reference:

• GitHub - sidedwards/contacts-exporter: Export contacts from the macOS Contacts app in vCard format to Markdown files with structured data.

[aegixx]

I just released the Contact Cards plugin: Plugins - Obsidian

Plugin: Contact Cards - Transform YAML data into a contact card

The Obsidian Contact Cards Plugin transforms YAML data inside a special code block into a beautifully designed contact card. This lets you quickly view a person’s details (even in preview mode). [example] [Example] Features Beautiful Formatting: Display name, title, company, email, and phone number in a clean, business-card style layout. Simple Syntax: Just provide a contact-card code block with YAML fields, and the plugin will handle the rest. Customizable: Adjust styling by modifying the…

I wanted a way to display an individual in my notes as a “business card”, and the other plugins didn’t provide the capabilities I was looking for.