![]() There is also a service available that will add highlighted text to your contacts.Ĭlicking on a contact opens a popover contact card with a row of customizable action buttons at the top. If the app recognizes the information you enter, it pulls up the matching card and offers to edit it if it includes any new information. If you enter information that it doesn’t recognize, it offers to add a new contact. Cardhop has the smarts built in to deal with both. Most of the time, your interaction with Cardhop will start from its text field regardless of whether you’re looking for contact information you saved months ago or are adding a new contact. You can also hide the groups panel with a button at the bottom of the Cardhop window, which reduces Cardhop to its most minimal UI, which is how I prefer to use it because I don’t usually organize contacts into groups. If you want to see all your contacts though, they are just one button click away. Below that is a column of contact groups on the left, which are the same ones you’d find if you open Apple’s Contacts app, and a list of recently contacted people and upcoming birthdays on the right. Clicking on Cardhop’s icon in your menu bar opens a detachable drop-down window with a cursor blinking in an empty field. In a communications app-centric world, I expect Cardhop will be a tough sell.Ĭardhop is based on a single text field that sometimes acts as a search field and other times is a text input field. Other apps and services make it easy to bypass contacts apps altogether with favorites and recent contacts lists. Email clients and messaging apps automatically fill in contact information based on past messages you’ve sent. However, contacts apps are less necessary today than ever before. Many contacts apps are notoriously clunky, hard to get information into, and prone to creating duplicates, which limits their utility. The app is beautifully-designed and powerful but solves a problem that I’m not sure many people have today. Now, Flexibits wants to do the same for contacts with a brand new app called Cardhop by integrating contact creation, management, and interaction into a single text field of a macOS menu bar app. It followed up with iPhone and iPad versions. ![]() He's been gaming since the Atari 2600 days and still struggles to comprehend the fact he can play console quality titles on his pocket computer.Flexibits took much of the frustration out of calendars when it introduced Fantastical for macOS in 2011 by leveraging natural language input of events. Oliver also covers mobile gaming for iMore, with Apple Arcade a particular focus. Current expertise includes iOS, macOS, streaming services, and pretty much anything that has a battery or plugs into a wall. Since then he's seen the growth of the smartphone world, backed by iPhone, and new product categories come and go. Having grown up using PCs and spending far too much money on graphics card and flashy RAM, Oliver switched to the Mac with a G5 iMac and hasn't looked back. At iMore, Oliver is involved in daily news coverage and, not being short of opinions, has been known to 'explain' those thoughts in more detail, too. He has also been published in print for Macworld, including cover stories. ![]() Oliver Haslam has written about Apple and the wider technology business for more than a decade with bylines on How-To Geek, PC Mag, iDownloadBlog, and many more.
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