All your contacts on one safe place!

Why?

Because your contacts might be scattered all over the place!

  • gmail
  • Facebook
  • outlook
  • yahoo mail
  • old phones
  • old computers
  • old work emails

Privacy and security

In a statement, Yahoo said user information including names, email addresses, telephone numbers, birth dates, encrypted passwords and, in some cases, security questions

Someone is listening in...

It's just a weird feeling to know that Google or Apple are looking inside your contacts. Especially when it's not necessary for their product to work.

V-CARDS

So we are going to use

What are V-cards?

Vcard files or VCF for short are documents that store contacts, they are a standard and will work with every laptop, computer or phone

 

They are made up of a simple easy to read list of information.

And yes they do work on iPhone or Android

Or on a dump-phone like the Nokia 301

Even on a curve 9220

How do you get your contacts as V-cards?

Generic instructions

  • Go to your contacts program or app
  • Click on export contacts
  • Choose export as V-card file or .vcf
  • Save your V-card on your internal memory or USB
Platform Instructions available on my website
Windows computer
Apple Computer
Gmail or Google contacts
Yahoo mail contacts
iPhone/iPad/iPod
Android Phone
generic Nokia
generic Blackberry
Facebook

Instructions for your specific device

Link in the video description!

Or here.

How do you make a V-card?

Think of it as writing on a physical Address book

V-cards follow this logic:

first contact begins here


king kong

cellphone number is 123...

fisrt contact ends here

second contact begins here

mario bros

home phone is 321..

second contact ends here

.
.
.
.
etc
first contact begins here


king kong

cellphone number is 123...

fisrt contact ends here

second contact begins here

mario bros

home phone is 321..

second contact ends here

.
.
.
.
etc

King Kong

123...

mario bros

321...

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:king kong
TEL;TYPE=CELL:123...
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:mario bros
TEL;TYPE=HOME:321..
END:VCARD
first contact begins here


king kong

cellphone number is 123...

fisrt contact ends here

second contact begins here

mario bros

home phone is 321..

second contact ends here

.
.
.
.
etc

What you mean

What you type

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:king kong
TEL;TYPE=CELL:123...
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:mario bros
TEL;TYPE=HOME:321..
END:VCARD

Write this in plain text and save it as a .vcf

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:king kong
TEL;TYPE=CELL:123...
END:VCARD
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
FN:mario bros
TEL;TYPE=HOME:321..
END:VCARD

For example I will name this as contacts.vcf

BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:3.0
N:Lastname;Surname
FN:FULL NAME GOES HERE
ORG:ORGANIZATION GOES HERE
URL:WEBSITE GOES HERE
EMAIL:EMAIL GOES HERE
TEL;TYPE=CELL:CELLPHONE GOES HERE
TEL;TYPE=HOME:HOMEPHONE GOES HERE
B-DAY:YYYY-MM-DD
NOTE:Here you can write any notes, Using "N:" is not mandatory. Coppy paste this in a text file as much as you want. Remember to save as "NAME.vcf".Order doesn't matter. Begin and end with "BEGIN:VCARD VERSION:3.0 and END:VCARD" Keep this as a reminder to you in the future. More info on the website https://archive.li/tZGj4#selection-441.10-441.20 or https://alejandroescalantemtz.github.io/blog/contacts.html or on wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VCard
END:VCARD

Use this preset by copy pasting this and editing your own info.

V-cards can store tons of information, for the full details visit this site.

You can make a V-card for one person or a thousand contacts

You can make a V-card for yourself and e-mail it to someone so they can have your contact info.

Thanks!

How to use V-cards

By Alejandro Escalante

Made with Slides.com

How to use V-cards

This slideshow was used to explain the concept of v-cards on a video I made on the same topic. A written version can be found on https://alejandroescalantemtz.github.io/blog/contacts.html

  • 1,243

More from Alejandro Escalante