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Solutions for bit-literate contact management
May 16, 2007
A reader of my new book Bit Literacy e-mailed me today what I recommend for contact management.
For years I've used two solutions: an ASCII "addresses" file (which I talk about in the book) and, for heavier duty tasks, a FileMaker database.
Recently, though, my friends over at 37signals created Highrise - a new online app for contact management. One of its breakthroughs is that you can forward tasks into the future - a key bit-literate feature, as I write about in Chapter 5 of the book.
Here's an example screenshot from Using Email and Highrise together. In it, the user forwards an e-mail to an address dedicated to a particular day (today, tomorrow, this week, and next week are options). This "lets the bits go" and the user can then get back to more immediate concerns.
It's wonderful to see that my own todo list, Gootodo, isn't the only app to focus on mailing the future. We need more such tools.
37signals is one of the few companies that "gets it" today, as evidenced by their review of Bit Literacy today. Keep up the good work, guys.
