ppl

The command line address book

Try it!

$ ppl add henry "Henry Catalini Smith"
$ ppl phone henry 012345678
$ ppl email henry henry@catalinismith.com
$ ppl show henry
Henry Catalini Smith <henry@catalinismith.com>

Email Addresses:
  henry@catalinismith.com

Phone Numbers:
  0123456789

Free

ppl is free software made out of other free software. It's built on top of Ruby and Git, and the completely free vcard address book format.

Decentralized

ppl is built on top of Git, the world's most popular decentralized version control system. Use your address book wherever you like and let Git worry about making sense of it all.

Good

ppl does its best to be a proper UNIX-style comand line program. Proper exit codes, no superfluous output, that sort of thing.

Latest Version

Sleep Mode 2017-10-23

This project seems to be in a good stable state. There’s a small active userbase who are mostly content with the software as-is. Not a lot of maintenance or feature work is necessary these days and I can’t justify spending money on a domain for a project that’s just chilling like this.

I’m converting the whole thing into a single, easy-to-look-after repo in my own personal GitHub account and disabling autorenew on ppladdressbook.org. Wanna make it clear that I consider this a fairly decent set of circumstances for the project to be in btw. It mostly just works and that’s for the best cos I don’t really have a lot of time to maintain and fix it any more.