The new Address book in Mac OS X 10.4 has a few improvements that I really like. The best one is that I’m able to add multiple websites to a person’s adress card. Many of my friends now have homepages, blogs, Flickr, Del.icio.us, Furl, 43 Things etc. Now you just click the + sign next to “webpage” and add more sites.
I can define my own categories for the URLs, which is nice. So I can add “Del.icio.us” and then enter someone’s Del.icio.us URL. But there’s a problem with this…
When I add a new category on one card, they are not in the dropdown menu for other people. So I have to type “Del.icio.us”, “Flickr” etc over and over again.
There really should be a global list for this, so that all adress cards share the same categories.
This could be a problem for some users, who enters different categories for different people, and end up with a monster list of categories. But for most people, it would help a lot if I add “Del.icio.us” as category on one card, it’s there on all cards.
Maybe there should be a little checkbox on the dialog box that pops up, when you choose to define your own new category (the text is in Norwegian):
The checkbox would just be “make this category available for all cards in your adress book”. It could be that this would be confusing for many users, but for power users it would be a great feature. With this, there also would have to be a list somewhere in the preferences where you could look at all the categories you have defined yourself, and which ones that are global and which ones are not. And a way to change a category from global to not global and vice versa.
Now, this is getting confusing. Hope you’re following me on this. Just make all user defined categories in Adress book global, and see if someone complains!
Categories: Mac / Feature requests
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