I want a contact management system that will remind me to: (1) follow up with new people I meet, and track when I do, and (2) reach out to those people on a regular basis (and track when I do). Please share your own app-based or text-based system for doing this! [more inside]
posted by incandescentman on Mar 12, 2013 - 4 answers

Where should I be managing my online contacts so that I can use them on my phone easily and how can I get there from the mess I have right now? [more inside]
posted by cmm on Sep 25, 2012 - 5 answers

In short: how do I sync all my contacts between Mac OS X Address Book, iOS, iCloud.com, and Gmail.com? Not as short: In olden days, I used the Address Book app on my Mac to store all my contacts. Everything in there would sync to MobileMe (and by extension, iPhone, iPad and me.com) and Google (for Gmail). After iCloud was released in October, turning on contact syncing between Address Book and iCloud resulted in a message that said if iCloud contact syncing is turned on Google syncing must be turned off. Googling tells me that lots of people are having this problem, but I'm not finding a solution within all the noise. What am I missing? Any settings to change? Any software? Thanks in advance.
posted by jroybal on Jan 30, 2012 - 1 answer

How to get all my contact info in 1 place? How do I grab contact info across networks like FB, LinkedIn, Twitter etc. and update & sync with Google Contacts? [more inside]
posted by manny_calavera on Nov 21, 2011 - 4 answers

How do I get a Blackberry backup file (.ipd extension) onto a new iPhone? The Blackberry itself has up and disappeared. [more inside]
posted by charmedimsure on May 9, 2010 - 5 answers

Help, I've lost all my address book and appointment calender from my Blackberry! [more inside]
posted by Unnecessarily Sarcastic Bitch on Dec 23, 2009 - 4 answers

How are journalists and related professionals managing their contact lists these days? Dead tree contact books or digital wizardry, I want to know about both. [more inside]
posted by embrangled on Apr 30, 2009 - 11 answers

What is the best / easiest shared cross platform shared address book solution out there? [more inside]
posted by cowmix on Oct 10, 2008 - 2 answers

Any way to have a shared Address Book while using Thunderbird? [more inside]
posted by ethel on Feb 1, 2008 - 3 answers

What is the best Address-Book-like app for a Mac? [more inside]
posted by dvjtj on Apr 25, 2007 - 8 answers

OK - I just bought an iMac to replace our dying Windows machine at home. I've successfully moved over almost everything - email (thanks to emailchemy), bookmarks, contacts, calendar items, documents. But I'm stuck on one thing - how can I reproduce the groups of contacts from our old windows outlook express address in the OS X address book? I would rather not have to recreate them one address at a time if I can avoid it. Thanks!
posted by sfz on Oct 22, 2005 - 12 answers

I am trying to find some software that exists in my mind, but I don't know if it exists in real life. I want a way to represent the people in my address book as dots on a [US] map, somewhat dynamically. OSX or web-based. Free or cheap, not subscription-based, though I would pay more for the exact right app. [more inside]
posted by jessamyn on Jun 1, 2005 - 7 answers

I have several hundred contacts with all sorts of information in my old OS9 outlook, which I must keep using for awhile due to our antiquated network. However, I was able to export my contacts as a "csv" file which seems to be some sort of excel spreadsheet. How do I import it into my OSX address book?
posted by luriete on Oct 14, 2004 - 7 answers