The more people you have to juggle and the more projects you are doing, the greater and greater this feature is. You get the date, time, subject and opening lines, so you are instantly briefed on what you were last doing together. If you know you’ve got to call Bert, look up his contact card - and right there is when you last emailed him. All there, all the time and immeasurably useful. You also get your most recent iMessage exchanges. Right next to their contact card, you get a list of the last emails you two have sent each other (this only works with Apple Mail at present). In Bus圜ontacts, though, you also get Activities. Like any other Contacts app, you can look up someone’s details and get all the regular stuff, like their many phone numbers, email addresses, and so on. In fact, it is excellent – and chiefly because of one single feature in it. I don’t think it’s gorgeous, I long to change parts of its look, but for features, it’s great. It’s a Mac-only address book and it is tremendous. Of the 100+ pieces I’ve written so far, there are many standouts but a recent one that was entirely new to me is Bus圜ontacts. I’ve had the chance to evangelise software that has transformed my working life and I’ve also had the chance to try a range of new applications I wouldn’t – to be truthful here – have been able to afford. I’m writing about ten pieces a week for to do primarily with software and given my obsessions, naturally productivity stuff crops up a lot. 05 All Contacts apps should work like this: Bus圜ontacts for OS X.Tagged blathering, city, contacts, friends, networking, new, people, socialising The disagreements I can learn from like I did from my fellow student.Īll of which is a long way to say that I want to point you at a piece by Meredith Fineman for Harvard Business Review: it’s a short, simple, practical guide to networking from scratch. The things they know that I don’t, the things they’ve done that I haven’t. We need to network for our jobs and actually I’d say for our very souls: I love blathering with new people. She was completely right, I was completely wrong.Īll these years later, it’s an important issue because we don’t necessarily move around a great deal but we do need to meet new people. So later on moving somewhere else new, by yourself, that’s hard and that’s why fewer people do it.Ĭan’t disagree. That’s why it’s at least easier than it would be on your own. And then she pointed out that when students move to a new place, they meet a gigantic number of other people who have just moved there for the same reason. I pointed out to someone that it’s startling how often students choose to remain in those new places after graduating, how they so completely fit into the situation that it must surely be easy. When I was a student, I was blasé about what it was like going to a new place.
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