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OD4Contact: Contacts on steriods

OD4ContactA poster in 43Folder’s Google Groups writes:

Ok, so I really like Apple’s Mail, iCal and Address Book interface a hell of a lot better than Entourage (no offense En’tage enthusiasts). But until Apple gets it’s act together and really puts up a fight in gluing those apps together (with a better task/note interface), I think I just found another reason to stick with Entourage.

It’s a common complaint, the kind of thing that CRM4Mac tries to remedy.

Today I came across OD4Contact, which takes the integration of iCal, Address Book and Apple Mail to a whole new level. It’s amazing what this app promises to do.

The app is a contact management solution that organises Apple Mail, Address Book, iCal and iChat around your contacts. Real-time synchronization brings emails and other information from Apple’s native apps into its interface.

The following screenshot shows some of its potential:

OD4Contact_screenie
Click for a full-sized screenshot

It also supports linking tasks with Address Book contacts, synchronization of data with iPod or PDA, the ability to organise everything by project (for task-focussed users) or contact (for people-focussed users), reminders, map searches, printing options and more.

OD4Contact was updated a few days ago and now has improved email support and better scanning of iChat logs.

As you might expect, this kind of app costs money. A single license costs USD 54.90 or 49.90 Euros.

You can read more about it and download a demo of the app from the developer’s web site (The app is now called Contactizer Pro).

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5 Responses to “OD4Contact: Contacts on steriods”

  1. mc says:
    November 7th, 2005 at 3:52 am

    I have to say, OD4contact seemed great from its specs, but it doesn’t do what I need – speed. Using Mail, MailTags, and iCal, I can mostly keep track of my contact cycles, though the one missing thing is having all that information at hand from the AddressBook. But I don’t have to work with a wacky interface, I don’t have to wait wait wait (yawn) while it calls up my conversations with a person (something Mail and MailTags allows me to do nearly instantly), and I don’t have to muddle along weirdly with my plans. It didn’t work for me. Sorry.

  2. Tim says:
    November 7th, 2005 at 8:52 am

    Excellent. That’s exactly the kind of thing that I can’t know just fooling around with it.

    No need to apologise. Your comments “value-add” (as they say) to the blog. Thanks for the feedback :-)

  3. Hawk Wings » Blog Archive » CRM4Mac3.0: Integrated iCal, Mail, Address Book interface says:
    October 30th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    [...] Is this a good thing? Sadly for the developers, I think that the answer doesn’t depend on the quality of the app itself, but on preconceptions about interface design and workflow. People will either love this idea or hate it before they even use it (or OD4Contact which does something similar). [...]

  4. Carachi says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 7:24 pm

    The link is wrong. The article is about OD4Contact, but the link to the developers website goes to CRM4Mac…

  5. Tim Gaden says:
    October 31st, 2006 at 9:19 pm

    Thanks. Quite right. All fixed now.

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