There are plenty of ways to deal with your contacts’ information, so which method do you choose?
Each of the five experts I spoke to uses iCloud for contact syncing; I’m the lone outlier who relies on Google.
For organizing their contacts, every Mac expert I spoke to relies on Apple’s own Contacts apps on the Mac and iOS.
Sparks stores his contacts in Apple’s app, but also uses Cobook, ‘which is much faster and always rests in my menu bar.’
Says Tabini: ‘Make sure you keep a contact for yourself, with all your current email, address, and phone coordinates handy, so that you can quickly share it with others.’
Sparks’s chief recommendation for keeping contacts organized is to make good use of the Notes field.
The best advice I gleaned from the folks I spoke to is that you need to find some consistent approach to handling contacts.