I guess all the key features is reserved for future payable updates.
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2010-11-07, 08:36 PM
I guess all the key features is reserved for future payable updates.
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2010-11-07, 10:52 PM
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2010-11-08, 12:00 AM
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If Ken wants to give us location-aware alerts that trigger when you're 10-miles from the intended destination and travelling in the opposite direction, you're right, that's his choice. He also has to accept that those who bought OmniFocus for the iPhone as a premium-priced (shopping) list App may well look at much cheaper rivals with more features and look askance at OF. If after 4-5 years and contacts hitting the top spot back in July I doubt he'll be surprised if even some of the long-standing Members who are committed GTD'ers starting asking Why Vote? and voice their complaints. You'll also have to forgive me, I forgot that your contacts are rarely dynamic, I don't imagine Auntie Em's phone number has changed since 1939, but sadly we can't all live in rural Kansas! I accept that my posts rarely make sense without examples, so here goes. OK, at the moment, we have a team of six on location in India, four currently in Kerala and two in the Maldives. As their phone numbers and addresses change every few days, they email .vcf's to the rest of us so we have always have their latest contact details. A couple of my Ferals are on gap years and they do likewise, we get emails as they change country with the location of their current fleapits and new SIM numbers. I have an action to call each of them once-a-month to find out how much dosh they need. In a few days time, I'll be getting reminders to call a couple of dozen individuals to arrange Xmas lunches, I probably haven't spoken to most of them more than once or twice this year, so if I'd copied-and-pasted into OF, I'd then have to go back and make sure that info was up-to-date. The young lady who does our buying sends us generic .vcf's (ie. catering) which means we get the best deal at any given point in time, but the actual company may well change two or three times a year. etc. etc. I certainly can't be bothered to constantly update OmniFocus to reflect all this by copying-and-pasting when I should simply be able to insert a contact into OF and when I click on it I'm taken straight to that name in my well-maintained address book! It's a no-brainer. :) Last edited by endoftheQ; 2010-11-08 at 01:24 AM..
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2010-11-08, 01:41 AM
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Would contact be linked into OF by the name, or more likely by a Hidden Unique Identifier. My guess would be the latter as two contacts can have exactly the same name and OF would not know which one was linked if it was by name. On the assumption that this is the case, as you deleted an old catering contact and saved the new one. OF's link to the contact would be broken as it would not know about the new Catering contact, the old one would be gone. Embedding the info in OF leads to old data, so wouldn't work either. This can be programmed easily, but you have to make sure that you capture the exceptions.
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2010-11-08, 02:10 AM
Hi GeoffAirey,
I must confess I don't often delete a contact, simply update an existing one in my address book, however I've no doubt Ken's coding skills are up to the task of capturing the exceptions! I have dozens of Apps (some of them freebies) that manage this successfully, some even dynamically update info as it changes.
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2010-11-08, 07:17 AM
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