MacWorld writer Christopher Breen offers three ways to print out contact information from Address Book so that you can take it with you in a day planner (Filofax, Franklin, Day Runner, etc).

Well, two ways really. He covers using Address Book’s own built-in printing option, first through the included settings and then using instructions in a tip in the Apple Discussions forum.

He also suggests using the freeware Palm Desktop for Mac software , which offers more extensive options that are easier to configure than the Apple Discussions tip.

You can add one more option by quickly scanning the Address Book entries in the Hawk Wings Plugin and Addon List.

Address Book Reports (see an earlier Hawk Wings post ) offers many more options than the features built-in to Address Book.

It is shareware (USD 15) but will be money well spent for people with unusual day planners or boutique needs or for people who simply like to have all the options at their finger-tips.address book, day planner, filofax, franklin, contacts, printing, hipster, not apple mail, productivity

You can’t spend all day in front of your computer. Sometimes you need to go out, but you still need to be able to contact people. Enter Address Book Reports.

This app provides flexible and useful print-outs of the contact information in your Address Book. It offers significant improvements on Address Book’s built-in printing.

Its Card and Phonebook styles are ideal for slipping into a Day planner, Filofax or diary.

Address Book Reports also allows for custom page sizes for the reports, so hipster-wielding retro-tech GTD fans are catered for as well. 3″ x 5″ print outs are just a few clicks away.

The main window allows you to chose which fields to print for each report style and whether to print the lot or just specific groups:

The app can also print envelopes (US and international sizes) and labels (Dymo, Avery, even a POSTNET bar code).

Address Book Reports is shareware (USD 15) and available from the developer’s web site, where you can also check out some sample print-outs.