How do you distributely manage your address book?
September 3rd, 2004
Many of us know the situation where they have to access relatively personal information from more than one physical location, on more than one computer, with more than one program. The joint forces of the Internet have already created several solutions to this problem. I keep my bookmarks now at del.icio.us. My code is at SourceForge. And my memory is at a blog. But one question seems to remain unsolved: where do I keep my e-mail addresses?
I have a desktop at home, with a ThunderBird email client on it. I also have a laptop, with the same email client. Occasionally, I switch the OS on either machine. However, at my work location, I use a webmail client. In addition, I have some other (unrelated) mailboxes that also only work with a browser. How can one keep all those address books synchronized? Can we think of a solution that allows you to press CTRL-K on any of them, and access the same address book? Or am I dreaming here? How do you manage your addresses?
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM I don't. I know all adresses by heart, at least the ones I use frequently and otherwise I look up an old mail or something like that. Yes, I know a it's pretty silly way of handling addresses but it works for me :)
April 21st, 2008 at 10:17 PM AFAIK there is no such option for gmail and hotmail. For the rest, an LDAP server will work just fine, as it should be supported by all stand-alone applications and most webmail gateways.