FROM AN EMAIL ABOUT PLAXO AND PRODUCTIVITY
>In order to use Plaxo though, he has to break up the files into groups under 65,000 which is a royal pain!
Bingo!
I was a fan of classic Plaxo (2?). In Outlook, I had divided my “world view” by community of interest — College alums, LinkedIn, xOldEmployer1, xOldEmployer2, Highschoolchums1, family, friends, acquaintances, dotcomaraden, etc etc. Plaxo1 only did contacts in one Outlook file. So when they then handled for files, all was right with the world. And, Plaxo was very useful. Now with version 3, there are all sorts of limits, and stuff. And, frankly, I don’t think it works. Plaxo is making deals with ISPs and modifying its software for that.
And, they imho have lost their essential value proposition. “Your data about other people can be kept up to date.”
There are certain basic principles that they are forgetting: (1) It’s MY data. (Don’t be “stealing” it for other purposes without my permission AND that of the poor slob who it is about!) (2) It doesn’t matter what they other person says; it’s mine. (I have people who forget who I am putting blanks that Plaxo replicate into my Outlook record. Argh!) (3) What is all this “limits” “barbara streisand”? (If I want to keep track of a million people AND I am paying you, then you figure out how to do it. Don’t tell me — years after we’ve started and you’ve taken my money — that we are now going to have limits!!).
So, clearly, I’m moving away form Plaxo and back to a more manual system. Sadly. I’m interested of what everyone else is doing.
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