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1. #Cardhop exchange update#
2. #Cardhop exchange mac#

These sync across all copies of Cardhop on all your devices. You can add and remove people, and tap Edit to rearrange them in the list.

#Cardhop exchange mac#

Whereas Cardhop on the Mac is a menu bar app that focuses on favorite and recently used contacts, Cardhop for iOS provides four different contact views and a Settings screen, accessed by tapping toolbar icons at the bottom of its main list on the iPhone or the bottom of the left-hand sidebar on the iPad. If you’ve been frustrated by Apple’s Contacts app on your iPhone or iPad, Cardhop will give you all that app can do and much more, all while working with the same system-level contact database. Regardless, Cardhop for iOS looks and works very much like its Mac sibling (so go read “ Cardhop Puts Contacts Front and Center” for more details I’ll wait). It’s too early to tell if that will be true for me since I’m still explicitly trying to use Cardhop while testing. 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.

#Cardhop exchange update#

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.