Hi all,
What's the best place to keep a master copy of contacts if my tools are: Nokia 6120, Skype and Thunderbird?
I suspect I'm one of many people who has settled on Thunderbird as a mail package and only uses Outlook & Exchange under duress (like on customer's sites).
Skype is invaluable to me; again, I suspect I'm not the only one.
Nokia phones *used* to be great, but I still have a 6120 (aquired recently) that seems good enough and simple enough...
So, with these three technologies, I don't see any straightforward way of sharing contact information... I read hundreds of web pages on the topic yesterday and they all seem to conclude the the right idea is to use Outlook as a mediator of Contact (and calendar) information because PC Suite and Skype (not to mention google mail and calendar) will interface pretty easily.
My initial thought was I'l like to use Skype as the "source of truth" for my contact information. Keep skype up to date, and where-ever you are, you should by able to sync from skype, as it will allow you to backup contacts as a .vcf. Skype does some nice things, like keep all your phone numbers in international format if you imported them into your mobile that way, you're always GTG calling and texting overseas or while roaming overseas.
BUT, Thunderbird is not that interested in reading .vcf files. And if you try and load a .vcf with more than one BEGIN statement into your 6120 (S50?) Nokia (via mem card and copy), it only reads one entry....
To make life more fun, if you export contacts from your 6210 (NO, not using PC suite, because is sucks and is only interested in Outlook), you'll generate one .vcf per contact... A little hard to read into anything if you've got hundreds of contacts.
So, this is just really a request for opinions... Up to now, I've "given up" trying to keep my contacts consistant across these three technologies. I'd sooner have f&cked up contacts than give in to Outlook/Thunderbird.
What say you guys? Without Outlook, is there any decent "Centre of the universe" for you contacts? Should I just get over it and get a copy of Outlook?
Thanks,
Ben
