5 awesome online contact managers tools to handle your contacts

Managing contacts through Desktop managers is getting old fashioned. Using desktop tools to manage your contacts, particularly if you share them with others, is no longer useful. Besides that there is always a chance of your data getting lost or corrupted. Time for sending your address book online!

There are countless contact management solutions are available on the web, but lets narrow it down to the best. Below is a list of some best online contact management systems, that works just like the desktop alternatives.

Plaxo is a free online contact manager that nestles into Microsoft Outlook automatically, adding a toolbar and a handy pop-up dashboard for managing and updating your contact lists. Besides that it Syncs with MS Outlook Express, Max OS X, Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, MSN Hotmail/Windows Live, LinkedIn (Pro Version) and and Windows Mail.

Gmail Contacts is one of my favorite because it integrated nicely inside my Gmail and i don’t need to get out of my mail to do simple adding and deleting of contacts etc. It also lets me import contacts through a CSV file produced by Outlook, Outlook Express, Yahoo!, or Hotmail.

Highrise from the famous 37signals is a online shared contact manager with nifty features like tag contacts with keywords, share contacts with other users on your Highrise account, add tasks tied to individual contacts or companies. You can also use it as a GTD application. For $24 per month you can share up with 6 Users and let you store upto 5,000 contacts and few more other plans which are more expensive and larger.

Oprius lets you ultimate control over your contacts with extensive contact details, custom fields, contact import and export, groups, a calendar and task list, general notes and history, and the ability to link any task or appointment to a contact. Existing contacts can be imported easily from Outlook, Palm, Yahoo, GMail and from a regular CSV file. For only $14.99 a month, Oprius is a very complete contact management solution, you can try for 30 days for free before subscribing.

WebAsyst is another free online contacts manager simple CRM functions. It lets you you add or import contacts, it provides a customizable website widget so contacts can be captured online. Contacts can be shared online through a system of personal or group access controls. Its available in both free and paid versions, the paid verions lets you add more contacts with larger storage space.

Do you think i missed something, shoot in a comment and let us know what contact manager you use.

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