Contact management

[Michael D. Stemle, Jr.]

On Tuesday 11 September 2007 03:11:01 damian wrote:
> I have a small business and would like a contact management system which
> is easy to browse contacts and look at all previous correspondence. It
> would also be good to be able to 'tag' people into different categories
> (eg friend, supplier, customer). Ideally it would be good to be able to
> set up my own fields for input but I worry that the more I configure
> something the more chance there is that I'll break it and loose
> everything. The thought of loosing all the data, or the data becoming
> obsolete because I used the wrong program is enough to keep me just
> having individual txt files in a directory at the moment.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> Cheers
> Damian

I'm not sure if you've looked at the contact manager in kontact and 
korganizer, but it's fantastic, and I do a lot of what you're talking about, 
too.  The only thing I don't have directly there is tracking correspondence.  
For that I usually just use embedded Baskets in Kontact.