[dennisbolt]

How do people like the built in Apple ADDRESS BOOK (I typed calendar in the topics acidentaly) in Panther? Before committing my addresses to it, I wanted to see if there were better address programs out there. Versiontracker has dozens to choose from.

I want it to be very flexible, so I can put in Mr. and Dr. etc and and also be able to have it print labels out out "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" rather than" Mr. John Smith" etc.

Also real intuitive label printing ability would be great.

I am not as needy in the full "contact" list of email websites, IM etc since I mainly want to this to be real easy for data entry as well as printing labels/envelopes.

Thanks.

[CatOne]

Originally posted by dennisbolt:
How do people like the built in Apple calendar in Panther? Before committing my addresses to it, I wanted to see if there were better calendar programs out there. Versiontracker has dozens to choose from.

I want it to be very flexible, so I can put in Mr. and Dr. etc and and also be able to have it print labels out out "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" rather than" Mr. John Smith" etc.

Also real intuitive label printing ability would be great.

I am not as needy in the full "contact" list of email websites, IM etc since I mainly want to this to be real easy for data entry as well as printing labels/envelopes.

Thanks.

Are you talking about a calendar program or a contact manager program? In OS X, they're separate -- "Address Book" and "iCal."

I like iCal fine, but I'm not all that fond of Address Book. I use a product called OD4Contact for this -- it looks a lot nicer and does groups, labeling, etc., a whole lot better... Give it a looksie.

[cpac]

yes sounds like you're interested in Address Book, not in iCal (contacts, not calendars).

Anyway, Address Book is free, and the info can be imported/exported using the standard vCard format - so there's no longer that huge "investment" of typing in all your address in one program and losing them when you switch to another. Even if the new program doesn't support vCards directly, chances are there's a way to import from Address Book.

Moreover, it's worth using address book because:

(1) It does do labels - try it out to see if it's powerful enough for you
(2) It's integrated with iChat, iCal, Mail, iSync, .Mac, &c.
(3) It's the most likely to be supported for the longest period of time

[wataru]

Address Book and iCal have met all of my needs very nicely. I especially like interoperation with iSync.

[dennisbolt]

Yes, my stupid brain typed "calendar" when I meant to say Address Book. My bad!

Any third party address book users out there?

[CatOne]

Originally posted by dennisbolt:
Yes, my stupid brain typed "calendar" when I meant to say Address Book. My bad!

Any third party address book users out there?

Yes, as I stated above

Have a look at OD4Contact, CRM4Mac, and MarketCircle Daylite. Actually Daylite is probably overkill, and in my experience it doesn't synch with the built-in address book very well and munges it. The first 2 actually directly use the address book database, I liked OD4Contact enough to pay the $25 or whatever it costs for the license. It's not perfect yet, but it's only been shipping for a few months.

Links:

http://www.objective-decision.com/en...ts/od4contact/

http://www.crm4mac.com/

http://www.marketcircle.com/

[Arkham_c]

I like Apple's Address Book very much. I actually wrote a server that lets multiple users sync their Address Books with one another over web services. I plan on selling it at some point for small business users.