Updating your Address book s.cks
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This weekend I spent the entire weekend in my favorite coffee bar to catch up with things that needed to be done for a long time. Importing videos, writing some articles for third parties (which will be published in the near future) and updating my address book.
In total I spend 5 hours on updating my address book, I punched in contact information on 121 people, adding stuff like “we met at SIME, talked about fleck which can be interesting for their clients. Mail when the new version is out”. I still haven’t imported everyone I wanted to, nor do I have a good system of keeping my address book up to date.
If only there was a plugin for address book (or outlook express for that matter) that allowed me to attach tags to people. That would make my life a lot easier and I think it will allow me to get more business out of my contact list.
People in address book on 19-11-2007 (statistic for later reference): 1136
Wrote on November 20, 2007 @ 2:14 pm
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.
patrick said,
Wrote on November 20, 2007 @ 7:04 pm
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.
Sander said,
Wrote on November 21, 2007 @ 11:51 am
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.
patrick said,
Wrote on November 21, 2007 @ 12:26 pm
@Sander, if so, let me know I’d love to test it
Gleb said,
Wrote on April 9, 2008 @ 11:27 am
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…
L.