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Address book software that knows people share addresses

Address book software that knows people share addresses

I'm a bit frustrated with Outlook and Google contacts, as neither understand that people share addresses, or that one address can represent several people. So you either have crappy custom fields like "Bill's mobile", "Jane's mobile", or you have a Bill and a Jane contact, and you have to keep the address updated between the two.

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Guest [Entry]

"As per @Gnoupi's comment, I've uploaded my own home-grown version to github.

Currently there is no exe (you have to download and build it yourself). I'll probably fix that soon.

ContactManager on github

ContactManager was born out of a frustration with Outlook and Gmail
contact management, which don't
include the notion of 'household' -
this makes it difficult to manage (for
example) a family's address, at the
same time as individual mobile phone
numbers.

ContactManager is very basic: it doesn't send or receive emails,
doesn't do mail merges. All it does is
manage contacts, and people. A contact
can be a business, or a family. Each
contact can 'contain' zero or more
people. There are a limited number of
fields that ContactManager knows about (address, phone number, email, birthday etc.).
Anything else can be added to the 'Notes' field."