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Purging info-poor entries from Address Book
Merlin Mann | Aug 20 2007
You may share my Address Book pollution problem — having too many orphaned names that got scribbled on a PDA or were manually added but never fleshed out (like: 10 years ago!). Here’s a really stupidly useful Smart Group for Address Book that helps identify entries without any real information attached to them.
Seem too obvious? Maybe. But it helped me kill eighty-two entries yesterday that might have sat around for another ten years if I hadn’t made it. Yay, obviousness. POSTED IN:
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