Brilliant App on multiple levels

after finding the default mac app too cumbersome for even relatively simple contact entry I decided to go with a more “pro” type app. As a regional territory manager for a large multi-national corporation, contact entry MUST be easy for me. There are days when I enter 30 contacts into mys system. That was taking an hour plus of my day at times, which just became unacceptable.

I’d been using and loving busycal for a while, so I thought I’d give busycontacts a try. And yeah, it’s everything I wanted plus things I didn’t even know I wanted.

First, contact entry is dead simple. Fast, intuitive, as many fields as you need, but not overwhelming unless you need it. The quick contact entry is *brilliant* in its execution and implementation. I was sold just on contact entry right there. In a week this saves me at least an hour, which makes up for the cost right there.

As an adherent of GTD, I’ve been using Omnifocus for a while, and one feature I’ve loved is the ability to give actions a person context so that I can look over my notes before meetings. Well, this takes that to a whole new level, and then some, automatically. Now, before any phone conversation or meeting I have with someone I can quickly review what I have going on with that person and have had going on with them recently. People are amazed at how well I “remember” past conversations, meetings, text messages, etc. They just don’t know about my secret weapon.

Search is a breeze, tags are great (Though I don’t use them a ton yet, though that’s more me just needing ot make it a habit).

If you manage a large number of contacts, this is truly a brilliant app, especially if you have busycal and they can work their magic together.

FJRabon about BusyContacts