Everyone knows that the Mac Address Book is perhaps the weakest module in its suite of personal productivity apps. What we need is a modular architecture, similar in nature to the iPhone apps. But barring that here's what I do to stay on top, and you may find it crazy but...
1. I enter my business cards in CardScan on the VMware Fusion side. Reason: it has business-card scanner support. Not available on the Mac.
2. I sync via CardScan.net because it pushes updates to my entire list, so that people can help me keep my list relatively clean (those that respond that is).
3. I sync my CardScan file to Microsoft Outlook which has a Plaxo toolbar so I can then sync it to Address Book, which also has the Plaxo toolbar.
4. The Address Book then syncs with MobileMe and the iPhone.
Phew! 😱
Now you know why I'm looking for a solution, because each steps adds like 40-100 entries due to various synching errors, so my CardScan.net database now shows I have 2100 contacts, while I only have about 1700 on my desktop... 🙁
1. I enter my business cards in CardScan on the VMware Fusion side. Reason: it has business-card scanner support. Not available on the Mac.
2. I sync via CardScan.net because it pushes updates to my entire list, so that people can help me keep my list relatively clean (those that respond that is).
3. I sync my CardScan file to Microsoft Outlook which has a Plaxo toolbar so I can then sync it to Address Book, which also has the Plaxo toolbar.
4. The Address Book then syncs with MobileMe and the iPhone.
Phew! 😱
Now you know why I'm looking for a solution, because each steps adds like 40-100 entries due to various synching errors, so my CardScan.net database now shows I have 2100 contacts, while I only have about 1700 on my desktop... 🙁