What is Contactizer Pro?
Contactizer is an amazing all-in-one solution for managing, sharing and organizing your personal and business information. Contactizer Pro makes your contact management experience more efficient, productive and inventive. Contactizer Pro, specifically built for Mac OS X, provides a wealth of powerful PIM features, all through an innovative, elegant and intuitive interface.Localized in English, French, and German.
Apple engineers went deep into the code to optimize the new Mac OS X. Objective Decision did the same with Contactizer 3.8. Starting with version 3.8, Contactizer Pro is now fully optimized with Mac OS X 10.6.
Top Core Capabilities
5 modules (Contacts, Tasks, Events, Communications & Projects)
Manage projects and track their progress.
Automatically summarize contact-related information in a single view.
Link email messages to your contacts in real time.
Collaborative network sharing. No server needed!
Tag contacts, tasks, events, communications, projects with multiple category labels.
Interconnect all Contactizer items including reciprocal relationships.
Mail merge (HTML email template builder included!).
Event Manager with meeting organization and more.
Manage follow-ups for invitations to events and tasks.
Assign Type to tasks and connect follow-up actions (calling by phone, sending a fax, sending email…).
Synchronize with iSync and iPhone (and make information available on other devices!).
Organize any of your information using smart groups.
Built-in Google Maps search service for contact addresses location.
Incoming call notifications and dialing through Bluetooth phones.
What’s New in 3.8?
- Mac OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard compatible
- General user interface has been modernised.
- Completed / Uncompleted / Progress filters are now placed on the top header of tableviews to allow data to be filtered by categories AND by status
- It’s now possible to subscribe to ICS calendars (online calendars)
- Projects & Tasks are now more deeply paired
- Categories are now part of the Bonjour Sharing for Contacts & Tasks
- A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget
- Low levels have been optimized for the upcoming Contactizer iPhone app.
Improvements
- Project’s completed date could now be edited
- A task can be linked easily to one or more projects thanks to a new popup widget
- Contact groups & categories are now available as merge keys
- Addresses in Contact full edit window are now ordered according to the card country setting
What are people saying about it?
Chris Breen, Editor at Macworld US
Contactizer Pro is, in many ways, an impressive information manager. The notion of the contact as hub to the information attached to it is an attractive organizational idea – one that you might take to.
For the complete review visit Macworld US.
Tom Gorham, Editor at Macuser UK
The growing appeal of Macs in small businesses has been matched by an explosion of networkable task and contact managers. Despite some rough edges, this new version of Objective Decision’s Contactizer Pro more than holds its own ina competitive market.
For the complete review visit Macuser UK.
System requirements:
Contactizer is an universal binary application so it will work natively on both PPC and Intel based Macs running Mac OS X version 10.5.4 or 10.6!
External Links
Contactizer Home
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June 27th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
Is this going to be a free upgrade to v4? And can this send auto emails at different stages in the event or when an event is checked / marked completed?
ie An even t has 30 days before end – a particular email template is sent to a particular contact(s).
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And an event has an element that has been marked as ‘done’ or ‘completed’ and – a particular email template is sent to a particular contact(s).
June 28th, 2010 at 7:42 pm
I’ve heard this before. This app has made a mess of my machine. Every time I hear a great review, I dig it back up and let it hurt me again. Now that it’s compatible with 10.6 I’ll give it another go.
June 28th, 2010 at 10:17 pm
I bought this as a replacement for Now Up to Date/Contact but find it too complex and unintuitive to use. Tech support is weak. Still looking for a N/C NUD replacement
June 29th, 2010 at 9:27 pm
@kitm — http://www.marketcircle.com/daylite/nowsoftware/
June 29th, 2010 at 9:33 pm
@kitm — Although, if you find Contactizer unintuitive, you’ll probably have issues with Daylite, too. I’m evaluating a newer contender, Relationship, which is still offered at a slight discount over at Macupdate.com: http://www.jumsoft.com/relationship/.
You might also look at SOHO Organizer, which had garnered some negative comments early on, but has been very actively developed: http://www.chronosnet.com/Products/sohoorganizer.html