Contact Metadata: The big WIN = Spotlight accessibility!
In my first post about metadata in Address Book, I think I forgot to mention that the real benefit in adding tags to your contacts individually is that they can then be indexed using spotlight on those tags. You don’t need to tag your contacts to be able to put them in groups together. You can just use regular Groups and manually drag the contacts you want into them, instead of using smart groups, but if you put tags in the Note section, you might as well use Smart Groups, and then you also get the power of Spotlight knowing about that information as well!
I had to import a heap of contact data from Excel, and the only route I could use was to export as CSV, then import to Netscape, and then export from there as LDAP, before importing in Address Book (Panther).
Comment by schinckel — May 26, 2005 @ 5:53 am