86 Chapter 6 : Personal information
Contacts

How do I add names and other info into Contacts?

You have a few options for getting contact information to show up in your
Contacts.
Connect to an online address book: If you have an address book in an
online account that works with the Synergy™ feature (for example, Google
or Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync), you can set up Contacts on your phone
to synchronize and display contacts that you store in the online address
book. Set up synchronization the first time you open Contacts (see Use
Contacts for the first time), or anytime after that (see Customize Contacts).
After you set up the connection to the online address book, contacts you
enter online show up automatically in Contacts, and contacts you enter on
your phone sync to the online account.
The Synergy feature makes it easy to synchronize other data from an online
account. By setting up synchronization in one app, synchronization of the
other apps is automatically set up for you. For example, if you set up your
Gmail account in Email before you set up Contacts, when you first open
Contacts, you find that your Google contacts are already downloaded. And
when you first open Calendar, you find that your Google calendar events are
already in your phone’s Calendar.
NOTE See Online accounts available for webOS phones for the current list of
online accounts that you can set up on your phone, from which you can access
contacts.
Transfer contacts using the Data Transfer Assistant: When you transfer
contacts from desktop software or an old phone, you select which account
to assign those contacts to. Look for those contacts in the account you
select (see How do I get data off my computer?).
Enter a contact directly in Contacts: See Create a contact for instruction s.
You can assign the contact to one of your online address books—if you do, it
synchronizes with the online address book. Or you can create the contact in
your Palm profile account, which means it shows up on your phone only.
Palm profile contacts are included in the daily backup of your Palm profile
information, so you can restore them if they are accidentally erased.
Download vCard info to Contacts: A vC ard is an electronic business card
attached to an email or an MMS. If you receive an email or an MMS with a
vCard attachment (VCF file format), download the attachment to Contacts.
See Receive vCards.

Linked contacts

The Synergy feature automatically links contacts from different accounts if it
finds data in common between them. For example, if you have a contact in
Exchange and in Google for Emily Weeks, your phone links the contacts so
that al l of Em ily's i nfo sh ows up o n a single contact screen. You need to open
just one view to see all of Emily's info. The actual data remains stored
separately with your different providers; it's just assembled in one view on
your phone for your conveni ence.
How can you tell if a contact is linked? Look in the upper-right corner of the
contact screen. If you see a stack of photos and a number, that means that
you're looking at a linked contact, with combined info from contacts you're
storing with separate providers.