I am looking for a good way to manage contact data. I have been doing a few haphazard things over the years and they aren't quite working the way I want. I have been putting data into Google Contacts because it syncs with my Android phone, but there is a lot not to like about Google Contacts. One thing I do like about it is that I can download a CSV copy of all of my contact data whenever I want it. A big problem with Google Contacts is the lack of reasonable documentation. Look at their docs and see if you can find out which fields are allowed in imported CSV files: https://support.google.com/mail/answer/14024?hl=en&ref_topic=1284986 I have no luck. Searching the web reveals that everyone is stymied by this bizarre shortcoming, inventing the wheel over and over again, but they are different wheels because people make different discoveries, understand Contacts differently, and Contact fields seem to be changing over time. Check it out: http://www.google.com/search?q=google+csv+fields Someone on another list recommended Gnome for contact management, but he said that it cannot export a nickname field. That is not acceptable to me. I need that field. It would be nice to have a solution that allowed me to define fields. Any ideas? Mike