2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44
Myriads of times you gave up trying to "comb" your list of contacts. And each new entry further removes you from a hint of order. Where can you find that Hercules who will dismantle the Augean stables from your hundreds of connections on Google, Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other popular places on the Internet? Finally, how can you find out more about a stranger who sent you an email on Gmail? We know the answers and want to share them with you.
Ready to roll up your sleeves? Take your time, in an impossible mission you will take a passive part: FullContact will take over all the dirty work. The tool offers two independent services: the web service helps to organize your contact list, and the Gmail plugin finds all the available information about your interlocutor. Together, they provide even greater efficiency.
Web service
The first acquaintance of the author with FullContact reminded of Likeastore - a great way to bring together your likes, favorites and bookmarks from a variety of social networks. The culprit of our review carries the same mission, but in relation to your contacts. Connect the profiles of Google, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn, Foursquare, AngelList, and also import electronic business cards - all your stuff will be brought together into a single list without noise and dust.
FullContact boasts very user-friendly navigation, well thought-out, great information content and just an excellent appearance.
The service allows you to assign tags to contacts, with the help of which you can collect links from different sources into one group. In addition to displaying standard data (email address, place of residence, phone numbers, links, birthday, etc.), the FullContact mechanism will load the latest actions of an account on a social network, for example, display a series of the most recent tweets. This function seemed to us a particularly pleasant bonus, because the same Facebook throws only some actions from selected people into your feed. And here you can quickly run your eyes over those friends-acquaintances about whom you have not heard anything for a long time.
FullContact claims to be able to find duplicate links. But in our practice, the same people, represented on different social networks, were not identified as one person. This is due to the spread in the spelling of surnames and names in English, Cyrillic and transcription options. Therefore, you have to link them manually. This is done simply using the search bar.
When adding new links, you will be prompted to fill in a decent number of positions. Of course, it is better to work to the maximum once and fix the data forever, leaving nothing to the memory. Unfortunately, all saved newbies cannot be back-synced with Google contacts or any other service. But there is an export of CSV-cards, which can be "fed" to anyone, although it will make you make unnecessary movements.
Chrome extension
The latest innovation from FullContact is designed to boost your Gmail experience. It is enough to install the extension, and you will be able to get acquainted with the "personal files" of those people and organizations from whom you received a letter or with whom you entered into correspondence. If you have used a similar Rapportive tool before, then you will perfectly understand what is at stake. You don’t have to go through many tabs to find out more about the sender: the summary includes a set of useful information and links, and it takes only a couple of seconds to prepare.
It is noteworthy that the extension also provides information about companies: official name, year of foundation, location, number of employees and many, many links.
This feature will be extremely useful if you have received a job offer or business cooperation.
Conclusion
FullContact is a very, very useful resource that helps you gather information about hundreds (thousands) of your connections from all over the Internet. Here you can quickly and conveniently process the contact list, fill in the missing information, and also group people according to various criteria. Gmail users on Chrome will surely love the hassle-free look of a virtual unknown email sender with the FullContact extension.
It is also important that users of the free tariff plan do not feel infringed on FullContact. They are provided with a database of 5,000 contacts with daily data synchronization. In our opinion, this is quite enough for an ordinary Internet resident.
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