One of the downfalls I currently have in my organizational system is that I have no method of keeping contact information. I collected many people’s contact information for Christmas cards this year and… well… it was on paper… and I can’t seem to find it anymore.
Keeping contact information in a paper format doesn’t seem to work.
I’ve tried keeping it in an actual physical contacts book, but then they get all mixed up and I can’t find anyone.
Electronically I’ve kept contacts in Thunderbird, VCards, Kpilot, Kontact, BitPim, and a few other programs. The problem with each of these is that my contacts stay on the computer that I’m on at the time.
I’ve also tried using my aged Sony Clie, but it couldn’t synch with my email.
It hit me this morning, I need a system where my contacts are stored in a central location accessible to all of the various programs I use.
What software offers such functionality that all of the different applications can access?
Then I thought, the Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP) should suffice, as it was originally designed to be a contacts service.
We’ll see how this goes. I’m not sure if it will suit my needs yet. More research is required.