Comments on: Updating your Address book s.cks

By: Gleb

Gleb — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:27:47 +0000

I have the same thing after every event I attend – entering data from bcards, adding to linkedin and so on. I use Contactizer on my Mac. It has a lot of prefered fields to add all the miscelaneus data and groups. I also use SmartGroups to filter the contacts by event or by country – it usually help me to discover person in special circumstances.
I invent this small tool http://www.vcrd.net to help people share their contact details – first of all the data on the business card. Some guys love it, but it hasn’t got popularity yet – maybe because we have some bugs and not spending to much time on it…

By: patrick

patrick — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 10:26:53 +0000

@Sander, if so, let me know I’d love to test it

By: Sander

Sander — Wed, 21 Nov 2007 09:51:57 +0000

Hmm i might write an address book plugin if i can find some spare time, definitely sounds like a feature i could very well use myself.

By: patrick

patrick — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 17:04:53 +0000

Hi Sander,
Thanks for the tip… The thing that I’m still missing is that I have to type in the tags for every person. A tagcloud to assign tags to persons is what I’m looking for.

By: Sander

Sander — Tue, 20 Nov 2007 12:14:45 +0000

Unfortunately i’m not behind my mac but on a shared windows computer so i could not test this but you could try:

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Use the Mac OS X Address book to tag your friends. Create a custom relationship field of “tag”, and then fill in whatever tags you want to use to describe them. This is simpler in many ways than creating a sea of categories to put people into, especially when you really just need something ad hoc for the duration of a project. You’ll be able to launch Spotlight searches from the tag, and of course Spotlight will pick up entries with that tag when you search.