Use Polymail for Mac, iPhone, and iPad as an alternative to Outlook. KMail This is an email component of the PIM (personal information manager) Kontact that includes calendar, notes, to-do lists, news, etc.
I use MS Outlook 2010. Groups are broader classes/designations within my overall OL address book. I have 3 groups, they are work, contacts and golf. Within each of these groups, I have people catagorized in different ways. In Contacts, I have friends and family, neighborhood, personal vendors and others related to my personal life. Work is comprised of the names of people I deal with or have done work for. Examples of catagories within the Work Group are: Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, HeathCare, Professional Service, Real Estate etc.
The last Group Golf, is a list of courses I've played and the people I've golfed with. When looking at the Contacts page in Outlook, I have My Contacts and the three groups referenced above are indented and beneath this heading. These groups sync with my iphone and are grouped in the same way with the exception that the contacts on my iPhone are not broken down in to the catagories above.
They are only grouped. I use MS Outlook 2010. Groups are broader classes/designations within my overall OL address book.
I have 3 groups, they are work, contacts and golf. Within each of these groups, I have people catagorized in different ways. In Contacts, I have friends and family, neighborhood, personal vendors and others related to my personal life. Work is comprised of the names of people I deal with or have done work for.
Examples of catagories within the Work Group are: Portfolio Management, Capital Markets, HeathCare, Professional Service, Real Estate etc. The last Group Golf, is a list of courses I've played and the people I've golfed with. When looking at the Contacts page in Outlook, I have My Contacts and the three groups referenced above are indented and beneath this heading. These groups sync with my iphone and are grouped in the same way with the exception that the contacts on my iPhone are not broken down in to the catagories above. They are only grouped. Click to expand.I use MS Outlook and I have approx. 2000 contacts.
These contacts are designated either Work, Contacts (personal) and Golf. The work group is comprised of work contacts broken down in to catagories (sub-groups) based on the respective contact's industry - Portfolio Management, Health Care, Real Estate, Capital Markets etc. The group Contacts are catagorized by friends and family, neighbors, personal vendors and others associated with my personal life.
Golf is a group comprised of courses and players. I'd like to be able to maintain the groups I have without losing the catagorization within each group. I use MS Outlook and I have approx. 2000 contacts.
These contacts are designated either Work, Contacts (personal) and Golf. The work group is comprised of work contacts broken down in to catagories (sub-groups) based on the respective contact's industry - Portfolio Management, Health Care, Real Estate, Capital Markets etc. The group Contacts are catagorized by friends and family, neighbors, personal vendors and others associated with my personal life. Golf is a group comprised of courses and players. I'd like to be able to maintain the groups I have without losing the catagorization within each group.
Click to expand. A free alternative: With the standard OS X Address Book you can create a smart group based on the contents of the 'Notes' field. So you could add keywords to the notes fields for your contacts, and create as many smart groups as you want. These smart groups can be used to send emails to all contacts in the group.
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This is how I've been managing my contacts for quite a while, and I find it to be much more flexible than a rigid hierarchy. Doing it for 2000 contacts would be a bummer, but you could maybe automate by exporting your current contact list to a CSV, adding the keywords en masse, and then importing to Address Book. A free alternative: With the standard OS X Address Book you can create a smart group based on the contents of the 'Notes' field. So you could add keywords to the notes fields for your contacts, and create as many smart groups as you want. These smart groups can be used to send emails to all contacts in the group. This is how I've been managing my contacts for quite a while, and I find it to be much more flexible than a rigid hierarchy. Doing it for 2000 contacts would be a bummer, but you could maybe automate by exporting your current contact list to a CSV, adding the keywords en masse, and then importing to Address Book.
This is an SOS to any business users of email on OS X. I currently have a few different business email accounts I use within outlook (and a calendar for each). Outlook now runs cripplingly slow on Mountain Lion and I just want to be done with it. The one major factor that ties me to it is that Outlook allows me to send meeting requests from each of the different email accounts that I've created, so I can send a request from the relevant email account, depending on who I'm sending to. As far as I understand it mail/ical only allow you to send from the 'default' email account that's been set up, which is really restrictive for my use of email.
Is there any workaround that anyone knows of for this or some other solution? This is an SOS to any business users of email on OS X. I currently have a few different business email accounts I use within outlook (and a calendar for each). Outlook now runs cripplingly slow on Mountain Lion and I just want to be done with it. The one major factor that ties me to it is that Outlook allows me to send meeting requests from each of the different email accounts that I've created, so I can send a request from the relevant email account, depending on who I'm sending to. As far as I understand it mail/ical only allow you to send from the 'default' email account that's been set up, which is really restrictive for my use of email.
Is there any workaround that anyone knows of for this or some other solution?