Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

#1

Post by laserson » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 12:44 AM UTC

My contacts are a gross tangle of partially duplicated records between Google, iPhone, etc.

How do y'all manage your contacts?

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?

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

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Post by mguerville » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 12:57 AM UTC

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)

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

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Post by trifit » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 1:05 AM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

#4

Post by johnz » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 1:23 AM UTC

Source of truth for all my contacts is my Google account then synced to my iPhone (and iCloud) via CardDAV.

I’ve been doing it this way for years and haven’t had any duplicate and/or missing data issues across the platforms.

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

#5

Post by el_snark » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 2:52 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

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Post by rufius » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 4:10 AM UTC

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

Re: Ask HN: How do you manage your contacts?

#7

Post by qamorgan » Thu, Aug 25, 2022, 5:51 AM UTC

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