Full-featured elegance

If you crack an inner smile each time you encounter elegant design, this one will have you grinning inside. At first, I thought this app would be too bare-bones, but I was looking for something different (from the new Address Book), and the more I played with Cobook, the more I began to discover new features and admire the design. It reminds me a little of some of the old Mac apps, where you could just try something on a new software program, thinking it might work, and it does. I’ve been using it for 3 weeks now, as a total replacement for Address Book, and it works perfectly - I have all the fields I want, in a custom template, with perfect syncing with iCloud (and, through iCloud, to my iPhone and iPad), and I’ve even done some ambitious things with groups (“tags” in the Cobook lingo).

Minuses? I wish there were documentation of each command on each menu, or an ever-present help function in each screen - there isn’t. So that makes the learning curve a tad steeper. But the Cobook website has a blog that fills most of the gaps, and when I had an odd question about setting the default (i.e., preferred) email address for a contact with multiple email addresses, I used the developer’s customer support link on the website and found myself very quickly being supported by one of the developers. (He explained how to invoke a rearranging of multiple email addresses for a contact that I had been trying to do with cursor clicks in the wrong place.)

I have no interest in this software, other than being a very satisfied user who wants this software to be successful.

HTH,
Ted

Ted in NC about Cobook