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.

[broekema41]

hello johncesta. I know this post a more than 3 years old but I have had the exact same challange. how to have a nice link between contact informations and my note taking workflow.

In the end decided to develop a community plugin that is now listed.

Feel free to ask questions via the Reddit post "Contacts Are Central to My Work—So Why Do the Tools Let Me Down? "or the github community page.