Ask HN: How do you store/recall professional contacts
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I use plaxo.com because it is free and will merge your contacts from Outlook, Gmail, and others automatically. I use the notes section to record when I last contacted the person, some stuff about their interests, etc.
The problem with this method is there is no built in way to remind me to make contact with someone who I have lost touch with. Also, the notes section is not searchable-- kind of annoying.
I recently heard of contactually.com that provides a notification system for reaching out to old contacts. I have not tried it yet.
The problem with this method is there is no built in way to remind me to make contact with someone who I have lost touch with. Also, the notes section is not searchable-- kind of annoying.
I recently heard of contactually.com that provides a notification system for reaching out to old contacts. I have not tried it yet.
Thanks for the suggestions. Plaxo looks like it might do the trick. Contactually looks like a perfect fit, but at $15/month I'll try the free service first. Since this won't be used for business but rather my personal contacts $15/month seems steep.
Google Docs or Excel with name of person, email, and a keyword or 2 on their relationship. it's not rocket science
As the months go by something will come across my path where I would like to reconnect with someone, but I often can't recall the person's name, their site or exactly how we left off our last communication. I end up sifting through my email to piece the memory back together, but I get a lot of email so that task is arduous and occasionally fruitless.
So I'm asking what people use to manage their professional contacts. I know applications like Salesforce are built for this kind of relationship management, but that seems like over-kill. Could be it as simple as notes in the contact list of your email client? If someone could enlighten me on the application and methodology they use that would be very helpful.