Keeping track of your Contacts?

[loo]

To have so many contacts that you have to figure out how to keep track of them!  I wish!!

That said, I would never trust any electronic medium as my only source of important files, no matter how many copies.  In the end, form my limited knowledge of computers, it seems we are inevitably trusting something over which we have no ultimate control.
 
Print, print, print, and put copies of the really important stuff in someone else's house, or 2.  I have recently taken old family pictures and put them in two different kinds of places in my computer, one on yahoo.  But I still have the original photos, and printed copies of them.

[AngelaR]

Thanks everyone for your ideas!

I'd not come across gmail - it certainly looks good on the filing front, so should handle the email side of the problem well but I particularly liked Denn's cut-and-paste solution as it should work for postings on websites as well as email.

I really appreciate all of you who reminded me that manual systems can work well - I suppose, having worked most of my life in computing, it never occurred to me to approach things that way I use paper for backups of the actual source material but had assumed everyone used contacts software to keep track of other researchers. A few lever arch files appropriately labelled could well help a lot.....

Thanks again fellow Rootschatters 

Angela

[JillJ]

I must remember
       Herd is heard

Hi Denn,

I was very tempted to correct it, but then it wouldn't have been a quote!

Jill

[dennford]

Yeh!
        Not being a typist, my fingers don't communicate with the brain.
                                                      Denn

[JillJ]

Hey Denn!  I am a typist and neither do mine half the time!

Jill