Do more with Contacts

Many people stash info in Contacts that’s used elsewhere, but they don’t necessarily use the app itself

very much. However, Contacts has a lot going for it. In its Template preferences, define the default information you consider important when creating a new contact. Also, when editing existing contacts, you can drag in a photo – from Facebook, say – that’ll then show up in other apps, helping to identify messages and FaceTime calls.

Use the note section in contact cards to add simple keywords, such as ‘family’. Choose File > New Smart Group and set a condition for ‘Card contains’ your keyword. That group can then be used in Mail; to aid autocompletion in Mail’s To field, prefix the group’s name with a symbol, such as $.