@knitcodemonkey @knitterjp Hmm. Maybe we could make an international version happen… 🤔 Your evening is our morning, right?

So just to get this straight – @LinkedIn removed the ability to add arbitrary notes for a connection (like how you met them) many years ago, and now has restricted exporting your connections’ email addresses so you can’t even do it in a 3rd party app. NOT HAPPY.

Relatedly: does anyone know a contact manager that will keep a contact’s details up to date, and also lets me add/search via arbitrary notes for them?

I should add – I have used @contactsplus in the past and have in fact just re-upped with them, but this LinkedIn restriction is really, really hamstringing its utility. 🙁

@thenickrandolph I don’t mean for randoms; it’s just for people that I’m already connected with, and who I can click the Contact Info button to get the email anyway. They’re just putting barriers in front to create a walled garden.

@thenickrandolph I’d be fine with it if they didn’t on the other side hassle you to give them access to your entire address book and email account so they could spam people to sign up to LinkedIn. Kinda ruins the “we care about your privacy” argument.

@thenickrandolph And besides – recruiters pay for special LinkedIn access… where they can very easily do all the stuff you’re worried about them doing. Recruiter are LinkedIn’s customers, not you and me.