Open Thread: What Do You Use to Store Contacts?

Sarah sent us an email:

Can you make a suggestion for a program to store contacts? Currently, my clients and I use Gmail Calendar for appts, Gmail for email, but there’s no good Google product for contacts.

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks!

Sarah is right. There’s no good Google product for contacts. Google has made some improvements to how one manages personal contacts in Gmail, but there’s no way to share/update contacts among groups.

Personally, I find it incredibly frustrating that in Gmail, I can neither merge two contacts into a single entry (one may have the right phone number, one may have the right email address) or sync contacts between different accounts. Are the barriers all about privacy concerns?

What are the best alternatives? Plaxo (which doesn’t sync Gmail contacts)? Soocial (still in private beta)? BigContacts? Highrise? Let’s hear your thoughts in the comments.

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