Comments on: My 2008 Apple Wishlist: Address Book http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book Made in the U.S.A. by the Double A. Tue, 17 Jan 2012 03:33:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Micah http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book/comment-page-1#comment-11224 Micah Tue, 22 Jan 2008 01:59:39 +0000 http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book#comment-11224 @eben I *do* keep middle name functionality on... that's how Paul shows up as Jobs' middle name in the screenshot at top. By and large, I usually keep all the fields turned on by default to save time when creating a new contact (who just may happen to be the one to break the pattern). And re: tree functionality, that would be even better, as it would know the context of the relationship... meaning other Mac software could do even smarter things with the data. Totally agree. @eben I *do* keep middle name functionality on… that’s how Paul shows up as Jobs’ middle name in the screenshot at top. By and large, I usually keep all the fields turned on by default to save time when creating a new contact (who just may happen to be the one to break the pattern).

And re: tree functionality, that would be even better, as it would know the context of the relationship… meaning other Mac software could do even smarter things with the data. Totally agree.

]]> By: Micah http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book/comment-page-1#comment-16884 Micah Mon, 21 Jan 2008 22:59:39 +0000 http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book#comment-16884 @eben I *do* keep middle name functionality on... that's how Paul shows up as Jobs' middle name in the screenshot at top. By and large, I usually keep all the fields turned on by default to save time when creating a new contact (who just may happen to be the one to break the pattern).<br><br>And re: tree functionality, that would be even better, as it would know the context of the relationship... meaning other Mac software could do even smarter things with the data. Totally agree. @eben I *do* keep middle name functionality on… that’s how Paul shows up as Jobs’ middle name in the screenshot at top. By and large, I usually keep all the fields turned on by default to save time when creating a new contact (who just may happen to be the one to break the pattern).

And re: tree functionality, that would be even better, as it would know the context of the relationship… meaning other Mac software could do even smarter things with the data. Totally agree.

]]> By: eben http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book/comment-page-1#comment-10785 eben Thu, 03 Jan 2008 16:56:37 +0000 http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book#comment-10785 another thing...along the lines of grouping, i would like to see some sort of family feature. sure a large number of contacts are friends, colleagues and business contacts, but say i wanted to find info about jonah...do i place that under micah, or mama c? i want an address card for jonah, but that is connected to his parents, some sort of family tree functionality, basically a laaker family card (preferably without photo!). btw, you should be sure to turn on the middle name functionality in address book. another thing…along the lines of grouping, i would like to see some sort of family feature. sure a large number of contacts are friends, colleagues and business contacts, but say i wanted to find info about jonah…do i place that under micah, or mama c? i want an address card for jonah, but that is connected to his parents, some sort of family tree functionality, basically a laaker family card (preferably without photo!).

btw, you should be sure to turn on the middle name functionality in address book.

]]> By: eben http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book/comment-page-1#comment-16883 eben Thu, 03 Jan 2008 13:56:37 +0000 http://www.laaker.com/micah/blog/2008/my-2008-apple-wishlist-address-book#comment-16883 another thing...along the lines of grouping, i would like to see some sort of family feature. sure a large number of contacts are friends, colleagues and business contacts, but say i wanted to find info about jonah...do i place that under micah, or mama c? i want an address card for jonah, but that is connected to his parents, some sort of family tree functionality, basically a laaker family card (preferably without photo!).<br><br>btw, you should be sure to turn on the middle name functionality in address book. another thing…along the lines of grouping, i would like to see some sort of family feature. sure a large number of contacts are friends, colleagues and business contacts, but say i wanted to find info about jonah…do i place that under micah, or mama c? i want an address card for jonah, but that is connected to his parents, some sort of family tree functionality, basically a laaker family card (preferably without photo!).

btw, you should be sure to turn on the middle name functionality in address book.

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