Comments on: Plaxo: OK free, not worth paying for

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By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:24:40 +0000

I use Gmail and Outlook – syncing the two through Imap. Google contacts is, to me, a weak spot in the company’s offering. In fact the main reason I stick with Outlook is because it has a better address book than anything else. I also like the way Windows 7 desktop search works with Outlook – though it doesn’t seem to pick up the imap data.

Hmm, Thunderbird, that might be worth investigating.

By: Parsley72

Parsley72 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 21:17:50 +0000

Well, for Thunderbird there’s Google Contacts (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/7307) which syncs your address book with Gmail. I also use Gmail IMAP Account Setup (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/thunderbird/addon/6381).

I use Outlook at work, so when I drop Plaxo there are quite a few tools for syncing with Gmail. I haven’t tried this yet, but my Windows Mobile automatically picks up the new contacts from the exchange server so that’s done.

I’ve recently stopped using Yahoo mail, as the UI is getting worse every day. I now pull all my email into Gmail then either use the web or Thunderbird to handle it.

By: Bill Bennett

Bill Bennett — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:09:54 +0000

@Parsley – What open source tools? Do tell.

By: Parsley72

Parsley72 — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 19:21:51 +0000

They’ve also dropped the tools to sync with Gmail and Thunderbird which was the main advantage of Plaxo – it would work with everything I used.

When my Premium subscription expires next year I won’t be renewing – there are open source tools that accomplish the same thing (albeit requiring more setup).