Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

10 pointsby lasersonover 2 years ago

My contacts are a gross tangle of partially duplicated records between Google, iPhone, etc.<p>How do y'all manage your contacts?<p>There have been lots of startups trying to take on various apps in people's lives (e.g., Superhuman for email, Cron for calendar, etc.). Are there companies focused on managing contacts?

5 comments

johnzover 2 years ago

Source of truth for all my contacts is my Google account then synced to my iPhone (and iCloud) via CardDAV.<p>I’ve been doing it this way for years and haven’t had any duplicate and/or missing data issues across the platforms.

mguervilleover 2 years ago

I tried various solutions before but I think some sync'ing is broken (including how google contacts does it), and now with the fragmentation of messengers (signal, telegram, whatsapp, linkedin) I just figured as long as I know the name of someone I can reasonably expect to have a way to reach them; albeit suboptimally sometimes if I guess the preferred network wrong)

rufiusover 2 years ago

CardDAV on Fastmail. Migrated Microsoft and Google accounts to it several years back and cleaned them up in an afternoon.

qamorganover 2 years ago

You should check out HiHello. They market themselves as a digital business card, but it’s a powerful contact manager too.

el_snarkover 2 years ago

I run a nextcloud instance, and sync two installations of Thunderbird and two android phones to it. All works well.