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See new entries in Address Book after a sync Apps
This is a ridiculously simple hint but it may help others in the same position as me who want to see at a glance which contacts have been added to address book after a sync.

First open Address Book and select all the contacts. Then open iSync and sync your phone with Address Book. When you go back to Address Book you will see that all your old contacts are still selected but the new ones are not, thus letting you quickly identify any new entries.
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Authored by: pascalpp on Sep 22, '04 11:26:48AM

I created a special group in Address Book called 'On My Phone'. To this group I added other groups: Family, Friends, etc. If I want to put a contact on my phone I simply add it to one of these groups. I don't add any contacts directly to the On My Phone group -- only other groups. Then you set iSync to sync contacts that are in the On My Phone group.

A side effect of this: When I sync my phone, any contacts that I created on the phone are then added to the On My Phone group in address book. So after each sync (or every once in a while) I look at the On My Phone group to see what new individual contacts have been added. I drag them to the appropriate group (Family, Friends, etc) and then remove them from the On My Phone group.



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great idea!
Authored by: mithras on Sep 22, '04 12:07:41PM

That's a lovely idea, thanks! I'll implement that right now :)

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See new entries in Address Book after a sync
Authored by: frickster on Sep 22, '04 11:34:34AM

What'd really be sweet, were if the exact opposite happened: after adding new contacts, THEY were the ones selected, making it much easier to drag them into Entourage....



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See new entries in Address Book after a sync
Authored by: Helf on Sep 22, '04 01:23:08PM

You can off course simply select "Show Last Import" from the view menu instead.. :-)



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See new entries in Address Book after a sync
Authored by: zpjet on Sep 22, '04 01:40:16PM
well it has never worked for me when using iSync. for you?

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See new entries in Address Book after a sync
Authored by: galaher on Sep 23, '04 12:39:59PM

>>You can off course simply select "Show Last Import"<<

This did not work for me. The two times I've tried "Show Last Import", there is nothing displayed. Perhaps this is just showing imports that were done via the File->Import command?



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