Maximise Google Contacts with 15 smart tips [Video]

Old-fashioned address books and rolodexes are becoming an increasingly rare sight as the world goes digital. What’s more, digital address books are not something you need to buy separately.

If you have an email address with Google (Gmail), Microsoft (Outlook), or Apple (iCloud), for example, an address book, or contact list as it’s usually called, is also included.

Google Contacts is the service that Gmail uses when you send emails. If a person is entered here, you don’t have to type the full email address manually, it will appear when you start typing their name in the To field.

But Google Contacts doesn’t just keep track of email addresses. You can also add things like phone numbers, postal addresses, postcodes, dates of birth, and places of work. The point is that you can keep everything in one place, and you only have to do it once.

The data contained in the contact …