As with the built-in Contacts app, you can also grab data from services like Google, Yahoo, and Office 365, as well as any Exchange or CardDAV server.
And any changes made in Bus圜ontacts are reflected in Apple’s Contacts (assuming there’s an analogous field).īut Bus圜ontacts also goes beyond integration with Apple’s own internal contacts. Bus圜ontacts essentially piggybacks on OS X’s built-in contact database, so you don’t need to do anything other than authorize it to slurp up your existing contacts. I don’t need to avail myself of every feature Bus圜ontacts has to offer, but there are enough niceties and improvements over Apple’s Contacts that I’ve pondered whether I might be better off switching.įortunately, it’s not an irreversible, or even a mutually exclusive, decision. In particular, if you need to share contacts among a group of people, say, in a small business, or if you need to log and manage your interactions with people, then Bus圜ontacts is likely what you’re looking for. But if you’ve felt limited by Apple’s Contacts (or just hate its interface, as TidBITS publisher Adam Engst does), Bus圜ontacts might fill some of the gaps you’ve encountered. You may not need everything Bus圜ontacts can do, because it’s a lot. Fortunately, the folks at BusyMac, not content with creating their own Calendar replacement in the form of the excellent Bus圜al, have now moved on to tackle the contacts part of the equation with the $49.99 Bus圜ontacts. #1621: Apple Q3 2022 financials, Slack's new free plan restrictions, which OS features do you use?Ĭontact management is not generally an area so exciting that you need to have smelling salts handy, but even I, with my modest needs, admit that Apple’s own solution, the Contacts apps in iOS and OS X, falls short in places.#1622: OS feature survey results, Continuity Camera webcam preview, OWC miniStack STX.#1623: How to turn off YouTube's PiP, use AirPlay to Mac, and securely erase Mac drives.#1624: Important OS security updates, rescuing QuickTake 150 photos, AirTag alerts while traveling.#1625: Apple's "Far Out" event, the future of FileMaker, free NMUG membership, Quick Note and tags in Notes, Plex suffers data breach.Ability to organise contacts hierarchically (through tags or otherwise).Import capability (from *.csv, Excel, Numbers etc.).My three most important wishes for future versions would be: I am sure it will develop much further and have a lot of helpful features. (I can of course also directly see it through the correspondence that Bus圜ontacts automatically displays).īusyMac support has been extremely helpful during my testing of the software. The tag in Bus圜ontacts will help me to always know whether a particular person has received a copy of that particular paper. that I cited that particular scholar in this paper) while providing standard information about the publication. With its custom fields TextExpander let me personalise each message and to include or exclude optional parts (e.g. Subsequently, I used TextExpander to write all these emails. Then I generated emails for every contact with that tag directly from Bus圜ontacts. I first assigned a special tag to all the people I wanted to send the article. Recently I disseminated a newly published article using Bus圜ontacts. I have already used Bus圜ontacts to organise a workshop and to map academic disciplines in an emerging network. The Tags work much smoother than Groups in Contacts because (a) you can add them while editing a card without reaching your mouse and (b) each card shows all its Tags (have you ever wondered to which Groups your particular contact card belongs?). customisable fields, colour-coded tags, and displaying email correspondence with a particular contact. I have really enjoyed Bus圜ontacts, which not only can replace Apple’s Contacts but can even compete with large CRMs such as Daylite.īus圜ontacts has many indispensable features, e.g. Last week this software (developed by the maker of my favorite Bus圜al) released the first official version.
Three months ago, I started using beta-version of Bus圜ontacts, which a reader suggested in a comment to the post on organising academic contacts.
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