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Saturday 05 January

Organize your contacts for the new year - the newest resolution to add to the list

Brewster contact management appThese days, with contacts in virtual address books, real address books (yes, I still use one), Facebook, LinkedIn, and apps galore, it's getting increasingly essential to find a way to organize your contacts and streamline them in one place.

Luckily, we've covered some great services and apps for precisely that purpose. Here are a few of my favorites. -Jeana 

 

Brewster 
To organize contacts on your mobile phone, Brewster is a great app for iOS (Android is coming!) that merges everyone's social media profiles, contact information and more into one place. Using services like LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook and more, Brewster automatically creates lists of people you are in most constant contact with, and even provides updates on job changes, birthdays, recent moves and more. All from your mobile phone. How smart. (Free, iOS)


For those friends' addresses you don't have, you can ping them on Facebook, send a text, or even simpler, just email them through Postable to request they fill in a simple form that automatically updates your address book. The good thing is, unlike similar apps on Facebook, they're not signing up or opting into anything when they do. (Don't you hate that?)  But keep in mind that unlike the other services mentioned above, there is no option to upload contacts from Hotmail, Outlook, Gmail, and so on--just good old fashioned manual entry and/or an Excel spreadsheet. 



ConXt makes it easy to organize contact information in one place on the web. You start by signing up for a free account and then can import contact information directly from Outlook, Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and Facebook, or request that conXt send emails directly to people you want information from. Once you have people's information saved, you can categorize, tag, mark birthdays--whatever you need to do to stay organized. 


Speaking of smart, Smartr is another cool contacts organization app that works in similar ways as Brewster, namely organizing by frequency of contact and updating automatically. But Smartr also includes helpful information like which email address is used the most for a particular contact (like for that person who has eight different emails), as well as a history of the most recent interaction AND contacts that are shared in common. It's like a contacts app and a pseudo social network in one. (Free, iOS, Android, Blackberry)

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CoBook is also a great iPhone/web Contacts application. I LOVE IT!

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