How can I create vCards from email sigs?
October 26, 2009 11:05 AM Subscribe
How can I auto-magically create a vCard from an email signature? I'm growing tired of the repeated copy-and-paste operations required to make new entries in my Apple Address Book when I have a nicely formatted signature file right in front of me. Is there a script or other handy tool that will do this work for me, guessing which bit of info is the name, phone number, etc. and placing them into a new vCard for me?
I'm not at my Mac now, but doesn't Mail.app try and guess what telephone numbers and addresses are in a message, and let you add them to the address book. I think if it sees dates it will also let you make a new event in iCal. Oh, here is the feature description: posted by chunking express at 12:14 PM on October 26, 2009
Response by poster: Ah ha! I forgot it did that. Thanks!
In fact, when I tried it out, the result was even better (in Snow Leopard) than I remembered it being last time I tried it.
In my big utopia in the sky, that feature will be extended to addresses viewed in Webmail messages, which is where most of my new contact info come. But, clearly, there are plenty of work-arounds to get the message into Apple Mail.
posted by mfitz at 1:08 PM on October 26, 2009
In fact, when I tried it out, the result was even better (in Snow Leopard) than I remembered it being last time I tried it.
In my big utopia in the sky, that feature will be extended to addresses viewed in Webmail messages, which is where most of my new contact info come. But, clearly, there are plenty of work-arounds to get the message into Apple Mail.
posted by mfitz at 1:08 PM on October 26, 2009
It might be something you can still do. Apparently all Cocoa text boxes should be able to do this thing at some point.
posted by chunking express at 1:11 PM on October 26, 2009
posted by chunking express at 1:11 PM on October 26, 2009
It's not quite as simple as it could be, but here's a relatively streamlined way to apply the data detectors to content in Safari.
posted by Cogito at 2:05 PM on October 26, 2009
posted by Cogito at 2:05 PM on October 26, 2009
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