Electronic Address Book...

[sillygoosegirl]

I want to either make or buy a nice piece of address book software. I want one that's smart enough to track "households" and people separately, so that I don't have problems with older data confusing me when a couple with different last names move (or shoot, couples with the same last name whom I make separate entries for because I want to have their separate birthdays on hand), and I forget to update both entries. I also don't want a bunch of useless fields (company, position, etc) unless they can be turned off. However, I do want fields for entering children, birthdays, spouses, other notes, etc. So in essence I want one designed for social/home use, not for business... which is what it seems like most of them are designed for.

Anyone have suggestions of available software to handle this? Or alternately suggestions of things the software should include if I was to write it?

Comments

[zathrus.livejournal.com]

No suggestions on where to find such, but please LMK if you find/create one. The things you've listed so far sound like great things to have. You might also add the ability to put people in groups (i.e., "Madison Friends," "Chicago Friends," "Mary's Family," "Josh's Family," "People We Send Christmas Cards To," etc. -- obviously, the ability to have someone in multiple groups is a Good Thing.).

This "designed for business, not social/home use" is one that I have often observed. It's why I finally made my own custom day planner; I don't have a lot of meetings in the average day, but I like to have somewhere to make notes on how reading lessons, etc. are going. (And yes, the homeschool community has created things to answer this need, but they usually separate education from everything else and assume a much more structured approach than we're using yet.)