Better Address Book Integration

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DT has a lot of potential as a contact manager (a CRM tool, essentially), but I am finding its functionality limited, and thus am resisting using it as such. I can certainly import Apple Address Book entries into DT. And while the imported address card will offer a link back to the original Address Book entry, there is no “syncing” between the two - changes I make in Address Book are not reflected in DT, and vice versa.

Bento 4’s Contact and Customer Manager template, on the other hand, does offer this two-way “syncing.” (http://www.filemaker.com/products/bento/demos/?homepage=bento_box_demo#contacts) Bento does not simply import and link to the Apple Address Book entries. It actually reads and writes to the Address Book files directly. Thus the Bento entries and the Address Book entries are always in sync. Such functionality in DT would make it a great CRM.

Thanks!

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Thanks for the suggestion! Version 2.2.2 will be able to link to address book entries which will therefore be always up to date (and displayed via Quick Look, at least on Lion). Double-clicking them will open the entry in Apple’s AddressBook application.

However, there are currently no plans to add more CRM functionality (especially editing of contacts) to DEVONthink.