Contact Find for Pc

For Palm users or x-Palm users, here is the App we have been waiting for on the iPhone. Keep in mind it only searches the iPhone the app List (not the yellow “Notes” files on your iPhone). But it’s the first search tool that can search all the various fields in your the app List, not just the name field. For those that don’t understand the need for this: Say you had a company install a beautiful skylight in your home two years ago, and you put the company info into your the app list along with the word “Skylight” in the memo field. At dinner your friends talk about putting in a skylight and ask you for the name of the company that did yours. You could manually scroll through hundreds of your contacts like a Rolodex in hopes of coming across it, or using this App, just type in “Skylight” and retrieve the information immediately. This is one strength of the Palm platform, and now the iPhone can have that same functionality. The App must load your hundreds of contacts into memory each time you open the program, so you must wait 15 seconds or more before the search can take place. However, during that time you can type ahead into the search field and have your form completed and ready to tap “Search.” After the iPhone 2.1 update, Apps no longer crash. This works just as advertised.

this app originally had it all except for speed. It searches in all fields and is very efficient. It you, as I, use the notes field as a free-form database for all kinds of information, you need a fast and reliable search engine to find things. this app now qualifies. I have about 1,300 contacts, some of them with a large amount of text in the notes field. I can enter any string and it is found in very few seconds. It does this by keeping available the last set of Outlook contacts that was fed into it so that it does not have to reload them when it receives a query. Thus, it is a good idea manually to order it to update its contacts once in a while. Otherwise the newest information will not be available. That is a small priice to pay!

I purchased this app to search contacts using the notes field. Upon opening, the program has to compile an index EVERY time you use it. I have about 1,800 contacts. It took my phone about 2 minutes before it was even ready for a search! Then, upon searching, I discovered you can only search by one keyword! Thus, if I'm trying to do a search on multiple criteria, the program is useless. Furthermore, if there is a problem and the app crashes, I have to repeat the whole process and wait another 2 minutes before I can do another search! This app is basically nonfunctional and I would discourage anyone from purchasing it. It's horrible that Apple has not included this simple functionality in the iPhone. I'm also greatly disappointed that I can't do a search for events in Calendar. These were 2 of the most important functions that I used daily when I had my Palm Treo, a vastly less powerful handheld computer!

I use the "Notes" field in Outlook as a free-form database, entering all sorts of information there including e-mail addresses, etc. I have been doing this for years and have nearly 1,300 contacts almost all of which consist of a name and a note, no other fields being used. I need a search engine that will search all of the words in the notes and the name fields. this app does that, and does it well. One can search all fields or only one named field (such as "Notes"). Obviously, searching a single field is appreciably faster. I hope that the developers will add an option to search multiple fields together (such as "Notes" and "Name"), but the lack of that facility is not reason enough to deprive the app of five stars.