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+ <chapter id="usage-contact">
+ <title>The Evolution Contact Manager</title>
+ <para>
+ The <application>Evolution</application> contact manager can
+ handle all of the functions of an address book, phone book,
+ or Rolodex. Of course, <application>Evolution</application>
+ allows easier updates than an actual paper book, and much
+ easier synchronization with handheld and remote devices. And
+ I doubt that you can take your little black book and make it
+ accessible to the rest of your office over a network. Since
+ <application>Evolution</application> supports most major
+ network protocols, including <glossterm>IMAP</glossterm> and
+ <glossterm>LDAP</glossterm>, it's easy to use over an
+ existing network.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Antother advantage of <application>Evolution</application>
+ is that the address book is integrated into the rest of
+ the application. That means that when you look for
+ someone's address, you can also see a history of
+ appointments with that person, and when you get an email
+ with contact information in it, you can create a new address
+ card very quickly. In addition, searches, folders, and
+ vFolders all work in the same intuitive way they do in the
+ other components, so you don't have to learn another system
+ for similar tasks.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ This chaper will cover the usage of the
+ <application>Evolution</application> contact manager,
+ including organizing large amounts of contact data, sharing
+ addresses over a network, and the automation
+ capabilities of the address book. Contact manager
+ configuration is addressed in <xref
+ linkend="config-prefs-contact">.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-basic">
+ <title>Getting Started With the Contact Manager</title>
+
+ <para>
+ To start managing your contacts, click on
+ <guibutton>Contacts</guibutton> in the shortcut bar.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Describe the interface. Include the fact that the
+ whole book consists of a set of cards, organized into
+ folders.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-cards">
+ <title>Creating, Deleting, and Adding Cards</title>
+ <para>
+ You can create a new card by pressing the <guibutton>New
+ Card</guibutton> button, or by pressing
+ <keysym>KEYSYM</keysym>. The <interface>New Card</interface>
+ window will appear. It has the following fields:
+
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Name:</guilabel> Enter the person's name here
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem> <para>
+
+ </para></listitem>
+ <listitem> <para>
+ <guilabel>Address:</guilabel>
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para>
+ Something
+ </para></listitem>
+
+ <listitem> <para>
+ Something
+ </para></listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ You can choose which fields an address card has, and create
+ new fields for cards. For example,
+ <application>Evolution</application> provides for two line
+ postal addresses by default, but you may have as many or as
+ few lines to an address as you wish. To change which
+ fields an address card has, choose DESCRIBE HERE HOW TO DO
+ THIS
+ </para>
+
+ <note>
+ <title>Quick ways to add cards</title>
+ <para>
+ You can add cards from within an email message or calendar
+ appointment. While looking at an email, right-click on
+ any email address or message, and choose
+ <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem> or
+ <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Sender</guimenuitem>from
+ the menu that appears. While looking at a calendar
+ appointment, right-click any email address, and choose
+ <guimenuitem>Create Card for this Address</guimenuitem>.
+ (NOTE that feature may change! unimplemented!)
+ </para>
+ </note>
+
+ <para>
+ You delete a card by pressing the <guibutton>Delete
+ Card</guibutton> button, or by dragging it into the trash folder.
+ </para>
+
+ <para>
+ You can move cards around just as you would with email:
+ dragging and dropping works, as does right-clicking and
+ selecting <guimenuitem>Move</guimenuitem> from the menu
+ that appears.
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-organize">
+ <title>Organizing your Contact Manager</title>
+ <para>
+ Organizing your contact manager is a lot like organizing
+ your mail. You can have folders and searches the same way
+ you can with mail, but the contact manager does not allow
+ vFolders. It does, however, allow each card to fall under
+ several categories, and allow you to create your own
+ categories. We'll go over categories in a bit.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Another useful UNIMPLEMENTED
+ <application>Evolution</application> feature is its ability
+ to recognize when people live together. If two people in
+ your contact manager share an address, and you change the
+ address for one of them, Evolution will ask you if you wish
+ to change the address for both of them, or just for one.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect2 id="usage-contact-organize-group">
+ <title>Groups of contacts</title>
+ <para>
+ <application>Evolution</application> lets you put cards
+ into folders, mark them as members of different groups,
+ and search through them in a variety of ways. This
+ section will describe how to organize and find contact
+ information using <application>Evolution</application>.
+ CHANGE THIS paragraph: it needs a great deal of work.
+ </para>
+
+ <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-folder">
+ <title>Grouping with Folders</title>
+ <para>
+ The simplest way to group address cards is to use
+ folders. By default, cards start in the
+ <guilabel>Contacts</guilabel> folder. You can create
+ more folders inside that one, or create other address
+ book folders as well. Each card must be in one and only
+ one folder.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To create a new folder, do this:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To put a card into a folder, do this:
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+
+ <sect3 id="usage-contact-organize-group-category">
+ <title>Grouping with Categories</title>
+ <para>
+ The other way to group cards is to mark them as
+ belonging to different categories. The difference
+ between folders and categories is that folders contain
+ cards, but category membership is a property of each
+ card. That means that you can mark a card as being in
+ several categories or no category at all. For example,
+ I put my friend Matthew's card in the "Business" category,
+ because he works with me, the "Friends" category, because
+ he's also my friend, and the "Frequent" category, because
+ I call him all the time and can never remember his phone
+ number.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To mark a card as belonging to a category, do this:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ Then, you can refer to all the cards in that category
+ by:
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ If the default categories don't suit you, you can add
+ your own. Here's how:
+ </para>
+ </sect3>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-sharing">
+ <title>Sharing your cards (Or Keeping them to Yourself)</title>
+ <para>
+ Cards can be shared over a network. This is the sort of
+ feature you'll want to use if your company has a list of
+ vendors and clients that needs constant updating. If you
+ also share your calendars, people can avoid duplicating
+ work and keep up to date on developments within their
+ workgroup or across the entire company.
+ </para>
+
+ <example id="usage-contact-sharing-ex">
+ <title>Sharing Address Cards and Calendar Data</title>
+ <para>
+ I want to schedule a meeting with someone at Company
+ X, but I'm not sure who to talk to there. Our
+ corporate network has an address card that states our
+ contacts there, so I know whom to call. Since we also
+ share the calendars, I know that Deanna has already
+ scheduled a meeting with them next Thursday, and I can
+ just ask her to bring up my concerns at the meeting.
+ </para>
+ </example>
+
+ <para>
+ Of course, you don't want to share all of your cards&mdash;
+ why overload the network with a list of babysitters, or
+ tell everyone on your network you're talking to new job
+ prospects? <application>Evolution</application> lets you
+ decide which folders you want to make accessible to others.
+ </para>
+ <para>
+ To begin sharing a folder of address cards, select <!--
+ DESCRIBE PROCESS HERE -->. The
+ <interface>Sharing</interface> will pop up. It contains:
+ <!--DESCRIBE INTERFACE HERE-->
+ </para>
+ </sect1>
+
+ <sect1 id="usage-contact-automate">
+ <title>Automating the Contact Manager</title>
+ <para>
+ The <application> Evolution</application> contact manager
+ can perform a wide variety of tasks for you. From speeding
+ up basic tasks like adding a new address card to managing
+ mailing lists, you'll find that the contact manager is more
+ than a mere address book.
+ </para>
+ <sect2 id="contact-automation-basic">
+ <title>Send me a card: Adding New Cards Quickly</title>
+ <para>
+ When you get information in the mail or in a calendar
+ entry, you can add it to an address card. To do so, right
+ click on any email address or email message, and select
+ <guimenuitem>Add Address Card</guimenuitem> from the menu
+ that appears. Of course, <application>
+ Evolution</application> adds cards from a hand-held device
+ during HotSync operation. For more information about
+ that, see <xref linkend="usage-sync">.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+
+ <sect2 id="contact-automation-lists">
+ <title>Managing a Mailing list</title>
+ <para>
+ You already know that when you are writing an email, you
+ can address it to one or more people, and that
+ <application>Evolution</application> will fill in
+ addresses from your contact manager's address cards if
+ you let it. In addition to that, you can send email to
+ everyone in a particular group by doing SOMETHING HERE.
+ Future versions of <application>Evolution</application>
+ will allow you to you export a group of cards to a
+ spreadsheet, database, or word processor so you can print
+ address labels or prepare large postal mailings.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ <sect2 id="usage-contact-automation-extra">
+ <title>Map It! and other extra features</title>
+ <para>
+ Need a map or directions? Click
+ <guibutton>MapIt</guibutton> from within the contact
+ manager, and <application>Evolution</application> will
+ map the address for you online.
+ </para>
+ </sect2>
+ </sect1>
+ </chapter> \ No newline at end of file