Friday, December 18, 2009

Solution for Misplaced Address Books

Oh, Ze...here is a recommendation for your lost address book issue. Take it away, Maria.
I found the perfect solution to eliminating the need to have the paper address book physically handy when needing an address. The cell/mobile phone. Almost everyone has one.

For each entry, the phones have a place for landline, work, mobile 1, mobile 2 AND email address. I put physical addresses in the place allocated for the email address, abbreviating when necessary, and leaving out the city/state since I know where they live. There is enough room for all the #'s (home, apartment, zip code).

For the paranoid in some of us, you can put the numbers in code in case you lose the phone and now someone has the addresses of your friends. Though, with the phone number, all you have to do is google the number (at least here in the states), and if it's not unlisted, google kindly gives you name and address associated with that phone number.

You can put the the numbers in 'code,' you just have to remember the 'code' . (Here's an example by using the #2 and the '.' when necessary. Example: the true address is 7329 Guerrera Street. Add 2 to each number, and if the individual # then equals two digits, use the '.' to separate that # from the other(s) - and this is what you input (for 7329): 954.11 - now when you need the address, subtract '2' from each #, and you get 7329. Easy peazy. (true #: 10938 = 32.11.5.10)

That is it. It has worked for me perfectly for years.

I hope this helps.

Maria


Thanks, Maria, for the reply! Enjoy the update!

Elisa

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