Organizing your Contacts

Evolution allows you to organize your contacts. You can create several individual address books, or contact lists. Within a given address book, you can have several categories of contacts.

4.3.1. Contact Groups

Contact groups are nothing but address books. The simplest way to organize contacts is to create additional address books. You can create a new one by clicking File > New > Address Book. For contacts groups on your computer, you only need to provide a name. For contacts on the network, you need to provide more information about the contacts server you are trying to access.

To move a card from one group to another, just drag it from the main display of contacts and drop it to a different group. You cannot change the contents of most network contact groups.

Contacts groups are not the same as contact lists. A contact group is like a folder or address book full of contacts. A contact list is a single contact that contains other contacts, and is most often used to email several people at once.

4.3.2. Importing Contacts

You can import contacts from other contact management tools with the Import tool.

  1. Click File > Import.

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    Mail yourself a contact as a vCard attachment.

    Currently VCF and LDIF are supported. CSV and TAB format files are supported from Microsoft Outlook, Thunderbird, Mozilla, and Evolution.

4.3.3. Creating a List of Contacts

A contact list is a set of contacts with a single nickname that you create. When you send email to the nickname, it is sent to every member of the list. This differs from a network mailing list in that it exists only on your computer as a convenience to you, rather than as an actual email address managed by a mailing list application on a server.

For example, you could create one card for each family member, then add those cards to a contact list called “Family.” Then, instead of entering each person's email address individually, you can send email to “Family” and the message would go to all of them.

To create a list of contacts:

  1. Open the list creation window by clicking the New List button.

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    Click File > New > Contact List.

  2. Specify a name for the list.

  3. Specify the names or email addresses of contacts.

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    Drag contacts from the main window into the list.

  4. Choose whether you want to hide the email addresses when you send a message to the list.

    Unless it is a very small list, it is recommended that you leave the addresses hidden. This is the same thing as using the “Bcc:” feature discussed in Specifying Additional Recipients for Email.

  5. When you are finished, click OK.

The list appears as a contact card, which you can use as you would any other card, including mailing the list to another person and sending email to the list.

To mail the list, open a new email and type the name you chose for the list. Evolution addresses the message to the entire list when you send the message. You can also right-click the list's address card in the contacts tool and select Send Message to List.

Evolution cannot store contact lists on Microsoft Exchange servers.

4.3.4. Grouping with Categories

Another way to group cards is to mark them as belonging to different categories. You can mark a card as being in several categories or no category at all. For example, you put a friend's card in the Business category because he works with you and the Friends category because he's a friend.

To mark a card as belonging to a category,

  1. Double click the card to bring up the Contact Editor window

  2. Click the Categories button at the left.

    The Categories window is shown below.

  3. Select the category from the list. You can select as many or as few categories as you like.

If the master list of categories doesn't suit you, you can add your own categories. To add a new category,

  1. Enter the new category in the entry box at the top.

  2. Кликнете на „Креирај“.

    You can view the category name in the field next to Categories button in the Contact Editor window.

  3. Кликнете на „Креирај“.

You can edit or set the color and icon for each categories available under categories list. To achieve that click the Edit button at the bottom of the Categories window. Press the Delete button to delete the items from the list.