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Seeking good programs for digitizing all our addresses

Posted by FishFingus
Tags: addresses, address book, software, ask.recommendations

What's your preferred program for typing up lots and lots of addresses? My mum's got multiple address books and they'll have to be typed up eventually, a block at a time. I don't really want to go with the contacts function of Outlook/Hotmail/Live, because it requires signing in and the password could be misplaced. I also would like to use something that could ideally export the addresses to another Outlook/Hotmail/Live or Gmail account.

3 comments

  1. Adys
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    CardDav is the standard for import / export of contacts. Any software that supports that (which will be any contact manager really) will be suitable.

    CardDav is the standard for import / export of contacts. Any software that supports that (which will be any contact manager really) will be suitable.

    5 votes
  2. heady
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    I just use Mozilla Thunderbird. You can export the contacts as a csv file so you don't lose them and you can sync to those email providers with imap/pop.

    I just use Mozilla Thunderbird. You can export the contacts as a csv file so you don't lose them and you can sync to those email providers with imap/pop.

    2 votes
  3. mrbig
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    I can’t say for sure but this seems like a job for Emacs.

    I can’t say for sure but this seems like a job for Emacs.

    1 vote