Getting Started
Here is a picture of the primary user interface before any address data have been entered. The first thing you may want to do is create an address book. Note that the Personal Contacts address book is present by default.
A screenshot of 's empty interface
A screenshot of 's empty interface
's empty interface, before any extra address books have been created. The Personal Contacts address book is present when is first installed.
 

How to Add a New Address Book
Open 's Add Address Book dialog with the File New  > Add Address Book... option. A dialog box will appear.
A screenshot of 's Add Address Book dialog
A screenshot of 's Add Address Book dialog
's Add Address Book dialog. Five cloud services are supported, plus three local storage options.
 
Choose one of the options that appear in the dialog. Several of these options link to data collections residing in the cloud: DAV groupware (Distributed Authoring and Versioning, RFC4918), Google Contacts (your gmail.com account), Kolab  groupware server (collaboration via ), Exchange Server EWS  (Exchange Web Services, on servers running MS software), and Open-Xchange  Groupware  Server   (an open-source alternative to MS EWS). If you already have access to one or more of these cloud-based resources, you can integrate those data into   by simply selecting the option and then entering your login credentials.
The remaining options in the dialog (Personal Contacts, vCard Directory, and vCard File) all create data sets that are saved on a local storage device. Each one of these options uses the same data format (.vcf, or Virtual Card Format), the only difference being in which particular directory the data are saved. The Personal Contacts and vCard Directory options create a separate file for each named contact you save; the vCard File option puts all the data into one file. It's probably easiest to start with the pre-defined Personal Contacts address book. You will not need more address books unless you have extensive contact lists you would like to keep separate.
Once you have made your selection, click on OK. If you have selected a cloud-based service a brief dialog will ensue, to establish communications between (the cross-desktop storage service) and the selected cloud server. Here's what the dialog looks like for a Google (gmail.com) account. The other cloud-based services are slightly different, but similar.
A screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
A screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
's link-to-gmail dialog. Begin by clicking Add. A new dialog will appear. Once your credentials have been accepted, this screen will reappear, and you will click   ✔ OK . If you would like to refresh the locally cached copy of your contact list automatically, do it here, before you click   ✔ OK .
A second screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
A second screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
Another picture of 's link-to-gmail dialog. Enter your gmail.com address and click  Next . You will be asked to enter your gmail password.
A third screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
A third screenshot of 's link-to-gmail dialog
Yet another picture of 's link-to-gmail dialog. Your account name and password have been accepted by Google's server. Read the privacy notice and press  Allow , then  ✔ OK  in the  Add  dialog with which you started.
 
Enter your login credentials as illustrated above and say OK. Voila! Your cloud-based contact list is now integrated into .
 
The window after a gmail.com account has been added.
The window after a gmail.com account has been added.
Another picture of the   window, after a gmail.com account has been added. You can now manipulate your gmail contacts via , if you like.
 
As the preceding screenshot indicates, once you have registered as a trusted resource, you can view and edit your gmail contacts using . Of course, you may also continue to maintain your contacts by using a web browser, if you wish.
 
If you selected one of the local address book options in step 2 above, a different dialog will ensue.
A screenshot of 's Personal Contacts dialog.
A screenshot of 's Personal Contacts dialog.
's Personal Contacts dialog. You may specify which directory will contain your data, and whether you have write access to this resource, or not. For most people, the default selections (as shown above) work well.
 
Make any modifications you deem necessary in the Personal Contacts dialog, then click  ✔ OK . A new address book will appear in the main interface window, as shown below.
A screenshot of 's main window with an empty Personal Contacts address book.
A screenshot of 's main window with an empty Personal Contacts address book.
's main window after the Personal Contacts address book has been re-created.
 

How to Add a New Contact
Open 's New Contact dialog by clicking the  + New Contact  button on the Toolbar. A dialog box will appear.
A screenshot of 's New Contact dialog.
A screenshot of 's New Contact dialog.
's New Contact dialog after clicking the  + New Contact  button on the Toolbar.
 
As you can see from the preceding screenshot, the New Contact dialog allows one to enter several different data items. Additional data may be entered via the Location, Business, Personal, Notes, Custom Fields, and Crypto Settings sub-dialogs, as explained more fully in chapter 4, below. For now, let's concentrate on adding the Contact data items appearing in the preceding illustration.
If you have created more than one address book, use the drop-down list labeled Add to: to select the data set to which the new contact will be added. Then enter the new contact's name in the input field marked Name, and key in his or her email address in the input field labeled  Email. If you want to specify special formatting options for this contact's name data, click the  ...  button to the right of the Name input field and follow the prompts. If you wish to add more email addresses for this person, click the  +  button to the right of the Email input field and another Email input field will be generated. To delete an Email address, click the associated  −  button.
You may also associate a nickname, one or more telephone numbers, multiple instant messaging services, and several web sites with each contact in an address book, as explained in chapter 4. You may also use the Show messages ... and Allow remote content ... options to fine-tune the way handles email you receive from each contact. See chapter 3 for a more complete explanation.