Eliminating Business Card Clutter
I was impressed with the a recent article on Unclutter that ask presented the idea of replacing business card files with Evernote. While this was an interesting idea I was impressed with the simplicity of photographing a business card with my cell phone for future recall. As I have mentioned in previous entries I use Outlook as my ubiquitous capture system so I am a little avers to the idea of adding the complexity of additional software to my process but I will likely adopt the idea of photographing a business card with my cell phone for later entry into Outlook and attaching the photo to the contact.
In addition to data that standard contact information I also use categories to identify the contact context like: Active Supplier, Potential Supplier, Customer, or a Project Name as well as the notes fields which are indexed but Windows Desktop Search for quick recall. This allows me to keep all my active contacts available on both my desktop and Blackberry as well as quickly pare to old contacts out of my active file into my archive.
It is amazing how quickly this approach allows me to recall contact information and I look forward to augmenting my current system in upcoming weeks when I attend a trade show.
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Well said