Exacerbating this problem is the fact that many communications channels revolve around conversations, so if I want to text Tonya, I’ll select our ongoing conversation in Messages rather than starting from Cardhop (which would, to be fair, reuse that conversation when it connected to Messages).įlexibits has now brought Cardhop to iOS, where it’s possible that contact usage follows a different pattern. I still think of the app associated with the action I want to take-email, phone, etc.-as the first step, rather than starting from Cardhop. In practice, apart from these few isolated examples, Cardhop didn’t change how I generally interact with contacts. I’m not saying that these techniques are efficient, but they’re what I’ve done for years. If I want to call someone, I’ll pull out my iPhone, tap the Phone app, tap Favorites or Contacts, and tap the appropriate item in the list. For instance, if I’m going to send someone email, I’ll switch to Mailplane, start a new message, and enter their name. The problem is that we’ve all built up habits that will be hard to break.
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In both cases, Cardhop’s natural language parser made it super easy to enter and update contact information, and it even fixed a lot of capitalization and punctuation errors in addresses that I pasted in from email.Ĭardhop is a fine app, and a compelling rethinking of how you can interact with contact information, but it still faces an uphill battle for acceptance. I’ve enjoyed using Cardhop, particularly once when I needed to enter a lot of names and postal addresses for runners to whom I had to send awards for a race, and again when I went through the envelopes for our Christmas cards to verify and update addresses. Want to create a new contact with a company name, email address, Twitter handle, and phone number? Just type “Tim Cook Apple 40.” From then on, you can contact Tim with commands like “email Tim Cook.” (So, Tim, about those butterfly keyboards…) Cardhop’s innovation is the way it lets you interact with your contacts using a natural language parser.
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#1655: 33 years of TidBITS, Twitter train wreck, tvOS 16.4.1, Apple Card Savings, Steve Jobs ebookįew Apple apps are as user-hostile as Contacts on the Mac, which was why I was happy to see Flexibits release Cardhop for the Mac as an alternative interface to the Mac’s system-level contact database (see “ Cardhop Puts Contacts Front and Center,” 18 October 2017).#1656: Passcode thieves lock iCloud accounts, the apps Adam uses, iPhoto and Aperture library conversion in Ventura.#1657: A deep dive into the innovative Arc Web browser.#1658: Rapid Security Responses, NYPD and industry standard AirTag news, Apple's Q2 2023 financials.#1659: Exposure notifications shut down, cookbook subscription service, alarm notification type proposal, Explain XKCD.
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