![]() ![]() Cardhop also features action buttons throughout the app for calling, messaging, videoing, and emailing contacts. Victor Marks A new iOS app, from the developer of Fantastical, aims to turn Contacts from something you rarely search into a tool you regularly exploit. Search ‘Email Tim’ and Cardhop will only present the email address for Tim Cook and not all the other information in the contact. The natural language parser also lets you easily search contacts and even launch actions. This makes sense since a name looks like a name, an address looks like an address, and a phone number looks different than an email address, but the same single text entry in the built-in Contacts app creates a new contact with the first name ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and no other details.Įasy contact creation is only the start of what Cardhop offers. ![]() ![]() For example, you can type (or copy and paste) ‘Tim Cook 1 Apple Park, Cupertino, CA 95014 80 birthday ’ and Cardhop will create the new entry with the correct fields populated. Just like Fantastical, Cardhop intelligently parses natural text to create new entries and launch actions. You just don’t notice because something magnitudes better hasn’t existed. Even as a basic database, Apple’s Contacts app can feel clunky and not well considered. I treat it like a database that’s primarily used to populate contact information in Mail, Messages, FaceTime, and Calendar. Personally, I don’t launch Apple’s Contacts app very often. ![]() That’s partly because Apple’s Contacts app hasn’t changed in several versions aside from gaining a rich leather address book theme then shedding the leather in favor of its current stark design. Cardhop is a super smart contacts app that makes the built-in Contacts app feel like it was made 20 years ago. And that's what makes a great indie app truly great.Ĭardhop will eventually run you $19.99 but you can grab it on sale now for $14.99.Flexibits, the team behind the excellent calendar app Fantastical, is out with a brand new Mac app that turns your messy contacts database into something completely usable and interactive. It's so powerful that, once you get used to it, you'll never want to go back to the built-in Contact app again. With Cardhop, you think about the person, hit the hotkey, start typing their name and how you want to contact them, and you're on your way. It's circuitous and leaves you open to multiple distraction and friction points. In traditional computer workflows, you think about a person, figure out how you want to contact them, open the app that will contact them in that way, then find their contact within that app. When you put it all together something profound happens. In addition to Call, you can also just type Copy, Directions, Email, FaceTime, FaceTime Audio, Large Type, Message, Skype, Telegram, Twitter, URL, and VoIP, and get access to all of those actions as well.Ĭopy is brilliant because it removes the tedium of extracting and sharing a contact out of a typical database page. It now includes both Fantastical and Cardhop for the same price If you were a Fantastical Premium subscriber, you are now a Flexibits Premium subscriber, with full. Flexibits Premium is the new name for Fantastical Premium. If I type "Call Ser Cal" it'll place a phone call to Serenity using call relay or BT pairing, your choice. Cardhop 2.0 is a major upgrade for Cardhop, adding a host of new features (plus lots of love and polish) along the way. (I can even type "work" to specify the kind of email address I'm adding.) Same if I type a date for her birthday. If I type "Ser Cal I add that email address to her contact. Check out our exclusive stories, reviews, how-tos, and subscribe to our YouTube channel. If I type "Ser Cal", I get Serenity Caldwell. Cardhop is a contacts app you’ll actually launch and maybe even put on your Home screen or Dock. (I love that, because I'm too lazy to type full names.)īut you don't just type to search. Type a fragment of the first and last name, get the contact. ![]()
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