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Everyone you know is in there somewhere.
Most people do not have a contacts problem. They have four contact lists, three of them stale, none of them complete, and no idea which one is the real one. The work is not entering data. It is deciding which list wins.
- Four moves, in this order — consolidate, clean, structure, then keep
- Ninety-minute sessions — a thousand contacts is four or five sittings, not a lost weekend
- Platform-neutral — Apple, Google, Microsoft and anything else
- 38 pages — PDF, instant download, no login
Page six takes five minutes and makes every later step reversible. Merging is the one operation in the book that can lose data.
What it is for
The list you can hand to somebody.
It is for the evening you need to post something and every address you need is in one place, current, with the right spelling.
It is for the morning someone asks who fixed your roof and you find them in ten seconds, with a note about what they charged.
It is for the week you have to tell fifty people about something, and the list is already true so you can just send it.
The four moves
Consolidate, clean, structure, keep.
The order is the method. Skipping to cleaning before consolidating is why people do this twice.
Consolidate
Everything into one place first. You decide where the real list lives before you touch a single entry, and page nine helps you pick.
Clean
Duplicates, dead numbers, the plumber from two houses ago, and the several hundred entries that are people you cannot place.
Structure
A naming convention and a shape you will keep up with, rather than an elaborate one you will abandon by February.
Keep
The settings and habits that stop it rotting again, including the one that quietly saves every address you have ever replied to.
The idea it is built on
One list is the truth. Every other list is a copy.
Almost every contact problem is a symptom of having two lists that both feel authoritative, edited in different places, each one slightly ahead of the other.
One home does not mean deleting your other accounts, moving ecosystem, or keeping everything forever in one enormous list. It means one account holds the master list, every device reads from it, new contacts save there by default, and when two versions disagree you know which one wins.
Honestly
Who this is for, and who it is not.
This is for you if
- Your phone shows contacts from two or three accounts at once and you are not sure which.
- You have duplicates you have been scrolling past for years.
- You have addresses in a spreadsheet, a phone, an old export and some text messages.
- You need a list you could hand to somebody else and have it make sense.
This is not for you if
- You only need holiday addresses. Get Your Christmas Cards Done Early is $19 and does that one job.
- You want the whole system. The System is $179 and contacts are one week of Month One.
If you want more than this
Where this sits.
A contact list is one of the four areas the System works through. This guide is that one area, done properly and on its own.
The Digital Life Management System $179
Three months across your accounts, your money, your files and your people. Both tools included.
Get Your Christmas Cards Done Early $19
If what you need is a card list by December, start there and come back to this in January.
Before you buy
The questions people ask.
Will this work on my phone?
The principles work on Apple, Google, Microsoft and anything else. Menu names change every year; what a contact record should contain does not. Where a step genuinely differs by platform, the book says so.
Am I going to lose anything?
Not if you do page six first, which is a five-minute backup that makes every later step reversible. Merging is the one operation in the book that can lose data, and the guide is built around that fact.
How long does it take?
Ninety minutes at a time. A thousand contacts is four or five sessions. It is not a weekend and it is not meant to be done in one sitting.
What about my work contacts?
You keep a work list. One home does not mean one list for everything, and page 32 covers how the two sit alongside each other without fighting.
Do I need an account to open it?
No. It downloads the moment you pay, and it is yours on your own computer. There is no account to make and no site to log back into.
Can I get a refund?
Yes. Read it, try it, and if it is not what you wanted, write to us within seven days and we will refund you.
Decide which list wins.
Four moves, in order, in ninety-minute sessions. 38 pages, one payment of $29.
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