Now that I have the gold version of Notes installed on my Mac I find that I do things to try to run into some of the same issues I did during the beta. As you can see, I haven’t had much to report here on that front – which means they’ve done a really good job of cleaning things up.
With one exception (so far): Synchronizing your address book (from your mail file).
Now, I hate that I have to ever do this, but since iNotes/DWA uses it and GOOD (software) uses it, I’m forced to do this manual little task once in a while to keep everything in sync (as opposed to keeping it N*Sync, I guess).
Here’s the process:
1. Open your mail file
2. Go to Actions\Synchronize Address Book
3. Wait a few seconds and you’ll get a report of what’s been updated
The result is a populated list in your webmail (iNotes/DWA) and, for me, an updated contact list on my handheld of choice (which happens to be the Nokia e61 at the moment, more on that later).
While I “get” why they can’t really automate this easily, there should be a way, ’cause its kinda a pain. Its even MORE of a pain on a Mac. When you go to run it, Notes asks where your names.nsf is located.
Recap: Notes is already open (thus USING your names.nsf) and it asks you where it is.
Now, in all fairness, this could be a handy feature. If I had a separate address book that I wanted to sync to my iNotes/Good-phone, this would be really handy. In my case, I don’t, so its just one more extra step.
Oh well, I’ll deal.
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