A Nimble contact list

I’ve briefly mentioned the tool “Dex” on here a few times, as it’s a great tool to help you remember to catch back up with old contacts. It does an excellent job, but it has one major problem — it doesn’t sync with my contacts.

It can pull in my contacts, as well as email and other things, but it can’t do a two-way sync. This means that for every new contact I get, I need to put them in my contact list as well as in Dex. The same for if I need to update a phone number or email address, or really make any kind of change to a contact. It’s not critical that their info is perfect in Dex, but I still would much rather be able to update a record once and know that it’s fixed everywhere.

I’ve looked at other tools similar to Dex (like Relatable), but it had the same problem — no two-way contact sync. I reached out to the folks at Dex and Relatable, and they both said they’d love to add that feature but it’s really complicated and likely wouldn’t happen anytime soon.

Nimble

That’s when I decided to take another look at Nimble. It’s been around for over a decade, and I’ve looked it a few times in the past. I never quite went for it before because it was lacking some features and was a bit buggy, but as they’ve continued to develop it they’ve turned it into a pretty solid tool.