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Also, family handling completely sucks. If you have both a husband and his wife in your contacts and they move, you have to change both their contact details. E
by lucumo 18y ago
Also, family handling completely sucks. If you have both a husband and his wife in your contacts and they move, you have to change both their contact details. Even worse when you decide you want to keep track of the birthdays of their three kids. This really needs to be refactored out to a family group with persons in it (who have individual details like birthdays and mobile phone numbers).
And then there is this whole American centeredness in contact management. My girlfriend has two first names, while a friend of mine has two last names. Neither fits the American model of "first name middle name last name". Shortening the second part of their name to an initial would be completely wrong.
But hey, it can never be worse than Evolution (an open source Outlook clone). Evolution had the interesting property of not being able to handle birthdates before 1970 properly. Cause, you know, who would know anyone born before 1970...
- harpastum 18y agoOne way to handle the family groupings can be achieved in Apple's Address Book using Smart Folders. Smart folders allow you to create auto-updating groups based on rules. Therefore you could create groups based on last name (families). If there are several families (i.e. extended family), you can add other rules to differentiate them, like State, ZIP code, or a custom tag in their 'notes' field.