And to achieve this then an up-to-date address book is going to be as vital as ever!īut wait … reports of the death of the address book have been greatly exaggerated! But if, like me, you enjoy playing a part in maintaining written communication in an increasingly digital age then together, between us, back-and-forth, we’re going to have to make sure that while so much is being sent to ‘the cloud’ we’re also sending tokens through the street, the post bag and the letterbox.
Now, I’m no Luddite, I adore the wider world of friendship and opportunities the internet has opened up for us and many of my close friends are those I haven’t had the pleasure of meeting in ‘real life’ as yet. After all how many of us have reduced the number of physical greetings cards we send since Facebook made it so easy to leave a message on someone’s virtual doormat instead? Where we don’t even need to note down the date on which to leave the message as we’re reminded it’s someone’s birthday as soon as we log on! New technologies which not only offered alternative places to store people’s contact details but which gradually eroded the need to know someone’s street address in the first place. The most recent entries were from years ago including old university friends and even my boyfriend at the time and the former I’m no longer in contact with while the latter’s home address has become much easier to remember since it became the same as mine when we bought a house together over a decade ago!Īnd it’s surely no coincidence that I stopped updating my book around the turn of the century the same time that, like many of us, I began communicating via email and mobile phones. So what happened to keeping the cast list of my life up-to-date?Īll of this made me wonder why I didn’t already have an address book filled with those who’ve played supporting roles on my life’s stage but it only took a brief flip through the one I’d abandoned to find the answer: the internet! And I realised just how much simpler the whole endeavour would’ve been if I’d just had a straightforward, low-fi, address book to take with me. The scene I pictured, of writing out my ‘Wish You Were Here’s on a sunny balcony, was far more romantic without a contacts list open on a laptop screen in the background so in preparation I searched through emails for addresses to print off and scribbled down others in my travel journal. Then idea of getting organised with a humble address book started to feel more appealing when I was planning my holiday last summer and I decided that, this time round, I’d connect with friends and family via the retro route: with a postcard. After all I use pen and paper to house other things I want to store away for future reflection: ideas, lists, moments and memories but I wasn’t doing the same for important things like addresses, phone numbers and dates. And yet I had a growing sense that I really ought to start keeping one again.
I’d grown used to storing addresses here, there, and everywhere from the back of a journal to the back of my head and at the bottom of my inbox. Until very recently I didn’t have an address book, or at least not one that I’d updated in the last decade. And if you’ve been keeping an address book since you were a child then you’ll even have the cast list to the prequel in there!.a platform featuring everyone from those with long standing starring roles in our biopic, down to the bit part actors who, like a character from Game of Thrones, we assume will be there forever but, in reality, don’t make it past Season One!.It's the cast of characters who have made an appearance on our personal stage.Do you have an address book? No, not a 'Contacts'.
ADDRESS CONTACT BOOK HOW TO
How to add a new contact category in your address bookĨ. Go to the "Address book" category of your settings, as described in the 1st and 2nd steps of this support article.ĩ. In the subsection "Contact categories", click the button "Create new category".ġ0. Fill in the required information and click "Create".
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