Comments on: Capture Your Outlook Contacts With gwabbit

By: gwabbit Offers Free Version of Its Blackberry App

gwabbit Offers Free Version of Its Blackberry App — Mon, 21 Dec 2009 19:01:28 +0000

[...] to help ease the process of creating new entries in your contact list. I’ve written about the Outlook version as well as the paid BlackBerry edition in the past and was impressed by the [...]

By: natalie

natalie — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:26:28 +0000

This program is ok, but the Broadlook Contact Capture application is far superior and it’s free! Plus it parses from anything, not just Outlook. This application is second rate at best.

By: gwabbit Gives Away the “Gift of gwab”

gwabbit Gives Away the “Gift of gwab” — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 00:01:38 +0000

[...] 7th, 2009 (5:00pm) Scott Blitstein No Comments I’ve written in the past about both gwabbit and gwabbit for BlackBerry, nifty tools designed to help you capture and create contacts from [...]

By: Nicholas Maddix

Nicholas Maddix — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:26:38 +0000

Good looking out, Andy! LinkedIn actually licensed the technology from us (Anagram). The downside is that it only works from text grabbed from within Outlook and does not work with appointments.

By: andy

andy — Thu, 28 May 2009 17:12:54 +0000

If you are on LinkedIn, the LinkedIn toolbar for Outlook works similarly. You do have to highlight the text in an email, but then it automatically creates a contact for it. It also has a button to find updates of contact info in LinkedIn profiles and prompts you if it’s been a while since you contacted a LinkedIn connection. And it’s free. (You can also download the vcard from any LinkedIn profile into Outlook without a plug-in, directly from your browser.) LinkedIn is also free.

By: gwabbit Brings Its Contact Capture to the BlackBerry

gwabbit Brings Its Contact Capture to the BlackBerry — Mon, 04 May 2009 22:01:20 +0000

[...] more common, though. On the desktop side of things we have the gwabbit for Outlook application we looked at back in March which got mixed reviews from us. In my testing I thought it worked well, while Simon [...]

By: randy

randy — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 02:48:17 +0000

It works great for me…I love it. No problems.

By: WebWorkerDaily » Archive Anagram Captures Useful Data From Text Snippets «

Mon, 09 Mar 2009 21:01:29 +0000

[...] 9th, 2009 (2:00pm) Simon Mackie No Comments Last week ,we reviewed gwabbit, an app that aims to automatically pull contact data from emails in Outlook. Scott Blitstein was [...]

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:21:06 +0000

I’ve got to say I just tried Gwabbit and I’m not very impressed. It did a pretty poor job of parsing contact details out of the emails that I threw at it

By: ssp5a1

ssp5a1 — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 22:41:15 +0000

I’d second the recommendation for Anagram, a truly great program that parses sig blocks and converts them into contacts (or updates existing contacts). Anagram goes beyond gwabbit by also creating events/appointments based on the text that is scanned. http://www.getanagram.com

By: Scott Blitstein

Scott Blitstein — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:13:40 +0000

Thanks for your comments everyone. I use Gmail as my primary client but I do connect Outlook to it via IMAP for occasional use at my desk.

Because Outlook is the ubiquitous product it is, most applications allow for easy syncing or import export to it. I find that using it as an intermediary for my data is a good option.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 18:25:08 +0000

@maseratij I think I see what you mean, but then you’d have to have another program running apart from your email client. I guess gwabbit went after Outlook because it’s a huge market. I’ll wait for Gmail to add this functionality as a Labs feature :)

By: maseratij

maseratij — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:21:15 +0000

@simon You are write most email apps do have vcard compatibility so why not have something like the software reviewed here, do its business in Vcard format. Instead of directly into Outlook and outlook onl.

By: maseratij

maseratij — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 14:19:33 +0000

Let me retreat gracefully. I am not working in a corporate environment as a Realtor. What is interesting about this blog for me is the focus on doing business with new web tools for greater productivity, that adapt to a changing social and work arena’s of the 21st century. Since there are several writers that contribute to this blog, I sometimes transfer the opinions of one writer to this blog in general. There has been more reviews of Outlook alternatives in this space than there have been of Outlook, in this space, by a wide margin. In regards to Outlook, as a single user, the size of the .pst grew ever and ever larger, with archiving in place as well. Took forever to load, took up a lot of resources, and that was before any add-in’s were enabled. I can live without Outlook so I do. Sorry if I came across as intolerant.

By: Simon Mackie

Simon Mackie — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 09:30:30 +0000

@maseratij why would you “hope” that no-one reading WWD uses Outlook? It’s a very good e-mail, calendaring and contacts app used by lots of people.

Most email apps do use vcards. Outlook, for example, can import and exports contacts to vcard

By: Anelly

Anelly — Tue, 03 Mar 2009 08:56:46 +0000

I’m using Outlook so i will definitely download and test the plug-in. Seems interesting.