![]() ![]() ![]() Plus it has automatically generates a QR code that someone can just scan to quickly add your information to their phone. On the flipside, when you want to share YOUR contact information, Cardhop offers a fantastic feature they call “Business Card” but I like to think of it more generally as “Contact Cards.” When you tap the little business card icon, the screen shows your “business card” that you can customize with information you want to show someone. When you’re done, just tap “Add Contact.” and Cardhop “parses” all the information in your contacts. In Cardhop, you can just type a name, and then just keep typing their email address, phone number, etc. In the default iOS Contacts app, you have to tap into individual fields to fill out the information but that takes a lot of time. I find the Parser is most helpful for adding a new contact. One of the most prevalent features you’ll see on every screen in Cardhop is the search bar … but this is more than just a search bar, Cardhop calls it a “Parser” because it actively parses the information you type into the box.įor example, you can use the Parser to add information to an already existing contact, or add a birthday to a contact, or even take action on a contact such as “Call Gunther.” There is also a Favorites button, a clock icon for “Recents,” a little present icon for your contact’s Birthdays, and then Settings. In fact, when you first launch Cardhop, you have to give it permission to access your contacts, and it will dutifully pull everything into the app.Īll of your contacts will be available by tapping the circle button in the middle. That’s an excellent question, and I’m going to show you the best features of Cardhop so you can make your own decision, but the brilliant thing is that you DON’T have to use a separate app! Because Cardhop works with the contacts you already have in iCloud or on your phone, and your contacts sync back and forth! Now I’m going to anticipate that the first question that comes to mind, and the same thing that I thought as well … why would I use another app for contacts when it’s already built into the phone? It's a boring area that doesn't get enough attention, clearly.Today’s app is Cardhop from Flexibits, the same company that develops the fantastic Fantastical calendar app / service.įantastical is a superb app that let’s you type in a date or appointment in “natural language” and the app parses it all out into a bona fide calendar appointment.Ĭardhop brings that same “natural language” capability to your contacts! (Currently, my iCloud contacts, iPhone contacts, and macOS contacts are out of sync, all signed into the same iCloud account. I spent some time reporting it as a bug to developers, but eventually gave up - I know when I'm an edge case. I regularly crashed every app that wanted access to my contacts for years. I had five digits by the time I got the first iPhone on July 1 2007. Add a card for every email contact that isn't spam, and you start to see how this adds up. There were some duplicates, which sometimes happened with iCloud syncing issues or back in the days of using a SonyEricsson or Nokia phone with iSync. Go to a conference, meet a bunch of people, save their cards. In the days before LinkedIn, people could ask me who I knew that worked at 'blank' and I could pull up five contacts there, and have an answer from three of them within a couple of hours. I added business cards of every person I ever met. ![]() I started digitizing contacts in 1997 with a PalmPilot. Somewhere I have a screenshot of OS X Address Book with the 32k contacts. You had 32,000 contacts? how is this possible? ![]()
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