"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
Evernote Hello
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#12"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
Do you often request phone numbers from people who you believe will run off with your phone right in front of you? This seems more like a terrible inconvenience than a risk to your property.
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#13I actually use Evernote for this all the time: I have a note with a list of new acquaintances along with descriptions and how we know one another. Like:
Becky: Friend of Kellie, works at UT. Likes chicken n' waffles.
At Nau's: Omar is young. Lulu is young. Gilbert is older.
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#14I'm not sure how this is better than Bump at exchanging profiles/contact info.
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#15"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
Do you often request phone numbers from people who you believe will run off with your phone right in front of you? This seems more like a terrible inconvenience than a risk to your property.
There are many parts of the world where a $700 phone is well worth running off with.
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#16"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
What? This seems a little... unthoughtful.
Whenever I'm at a conference I very regularly have to ask the person "Hey, your name, your number, etc" and many times I just pass them my phone to enter their contact info. This is no different. Why type it yourself when they're the ones that have ready knowledge on it and can enter it more quickly?
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#17I've been a diehard Evernote user for a long time, but making it useful required developing my own complicated system "built on" Evernote. To me, Evernote is a platform, rather than a product or system. I don't find it very useful out of the box, and I feel like they have a fairly myopic vision.
So it didn't surprise me that the product demo video demonstrated a shocking lack of understanding of customer problems and behavior. Okay, everyone's first red flag is surely the idea of taking pictures of faces, so let's pass right over that one. Now, are they really juxtaposing their contact list manager with a rolodex instead of Apple's Contacts app? While showing their app on an iPhone? I know you can import people from your address book, but this is just... a bizarre demo.
Anyway, no one has a problem with how to keep notes on their contacts or remember who they are. People have a problem with not bothering to keep notes on their contacts or remember who they are. The obvious (only?) solution is to automatically "add encounters" when they occur.
I haven't tried norada.com yet, but I've been scoping it out because it seems like using it requires no new behavior (it just goes right into Gmail in Chrome). Any norada users care to comment?
The way I WANT contact management to work is that when I email or call someone for the first time, it starts a case for them, and slowly grows that over time.
Final note, from the appstore reviews of Evernote Hello, another big red flag demonstrating myopia:
"Be aware that this app sends a message (without any warning or chance to review) to people when you add them to the contacts list. In my case it was a little embarrassing to tell my clients that I was trying a new app and didn't know it would send them an email without my knowledge."
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#18"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
Do you often request phone numbers from people who you believe will run off with your phone right in front of you? This seems more like a terrible inconvenience than a risk to your property.
Run off? No. Have them peek at my email? Maybe. Have them see a notification popup? Maybe. Have them accidentally lock phone and try to unlock it with wrong code? Maybe. I hand a phone to someone, get distracted and lose track of them for a few minutes? Maybe.
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#19"Hand someone your phone" is a dealbreaker. Specially someone I want to remember - it means I don't know them already, ergo don't trust them with my phone.
What? This seems a little... unthoughtful. Whenever I'm at a conference I very regularly have to ask the person "Hey, your name, your number, etc" and many times I just pass them my phone to enter their contact info. This is no different. Why type it yourself when they're the ones that have ready knowledge on it and can enter it more quickly?
Because phones do not have a "don't let this guy hit any other buttons and see my private info" mode. See my reply to the "run off with your phone?" question for context.
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#20First of all, this is silly and far more awkward than just exchanging business cards. I feel like they entirely forgot about business cards while developing this. Why would anyone want to enter in all their contact info over and over when they could just have their face and info printed on like 500 cards and hand you one of them?
That being said, I go to a lot of networking events and I have found that not bringing business cards is the best way to make connections - they often are forgotten or thrown out. What I do is I hand the person my phone and say send yourself an email. Then when you get it tomorrow, reply back and we can talk, maybe arrange to meet up later for drinks or something.
This strategy has been incredibly effective in maintaining the conversaton - usually they send an email with something about the event or what we were talking about and it provides context.
This comment isn't really going toward any great conclusion, really. I feel like they are on to something with the 'give them your phone' part, but doing it wrong by replicating a business card. And nobody wants to take a picture of themselves up close, that's just awkward.