So sorry to hear of the demise of Now Software. Now X was still slow and a little buggy but with great potential, and I've been a Now user since almost the beginning.

I've already migrated to iCal and have only been using Now X for contacts. Where is the best contact software to migrate to and keep all of my data (including custom field names)? I don't care about the links to the Now X calendar but would like to save everything else. Is there a way to get everything into the Apple Address Book?

Follow-up: It looks like Address Book may be the most pragmatic program to migrate to, but I'll lose a lot of data. Now X is slow and hard to use, and I'm afraid it will break with the next system update, so I want to do this sooner rather than later.

1) How complete and robust is Now X's export-to-text? Will it save all of my data (other than links)?
2) How hard would it be to write a Filemaker template for that data that uses all my custom field names? I'd feel more secure if all that data was in FM (2000+ contacts)?
Thanks,
David

Looks like Busy Cal is the calendar replacement. I am still able to use Now Contact 5.3.2 for my address database. I kept it after converting to NowX. Seems to work OK with 10.6.3 anad it seems more comprehensive than Address Book. Does anyone know of problems with it.

I'm realizing how much I rely on sorting by tags and categories. I really need a contact manager more than an address book, but I don't see any consensus here on a usable contact manager (Bento 3?).

I suppose it's to early yet; however, has anybody heard of a Software Company interested in taking over NowX and keeping it active and working? I have been a user of Now software since they started too.

I run both Now 5.3.2 and NowX on my computers Two 0n 10.4x and the also on my iMac i7 10.6.3. So far they all seem to work at the moment although the Now 5.3.2 icons don't show-up in the menus bar on the new iMac. No big thing.) The NowX icons do though.

Like others here, I'm afraid that at one point or another both may quit working as the Os changes, especially 10.6.x system and beyond.

I have migrated to Busy Cal; however, for me it doesn't seem to do much more for me at this point except to show weather and temperature.

Of course, I still have the NowX database, Now Contact database as well Apple address book and if I wanted too, since I have the latest Bento software build a database there; however, I just hate the thought of spending the time to do that.

I just wish that some Company would pick up NowX and keep improving it as well as keep it working with system updates!

Yes, any advice about where to migrate, another contact manager, would be very helpful.

Would LOVE Now to resurface, but in the interim, have converted to BusyCal. Seemed the friendliest solution for a calendar. Their customer service is very responsive and open to upgrade ideas, so there may be hope for a more robust calendar and contact solution one day. I never shut down my Now Contact, so I use it and export to V-cards when syncing to my iPhone. Not very sophisticated, but it works. (Do NOT like AB)

My biggest challenge right now is to find a task/event manager that syncs to BusyCal/iCal and pushes to iPhone and vice-versa (which is the tricky part). May be a pipe dream. I have tried SoHo (and purchased) Remember the Milk, Toodledo, and Todo, but not happy with any of them. Great as standalones, but limited 2-way interconnectivity. If anyone out there knows of such a solution, I would be very grateful.

Using Bento/Filemaker seems like a possibility depending on how much it integrates and syncs with Address Book.

Do ALL the fields that I set up in my AB template (in preferences) integrate into Bento, including the "notes" field? If so I might be able to use the notes field for tags and any other info that I can't put into the other AB fields. And if I change the label of a field in AB does it change in Bento?

I just found out Now X is closed and I am so bummed! Have been using it (Now Contact) for 8 years and have over 2000 contacts. Although I suffered through the bugginess- it is a great database that I have invested hundreds of hours in. What to do? Need to migrate to something that allows for the tags and categories.... Looking forward to hearing what folks recommend. Really would love to see a company take it on as it is a great database program.

welcome to the gang. for myself, i'm very disappointed. first because i used the program for so many years and really liked it. and second because there just is not anything out there that can replace what it did for me.

there's another thread in the discussions area, where we've been chatting about alternatives. am now using contactizer, but it does only a fraction of what now x did before. look around the board here for ideas, as the best solution for any of us will depend on how we use the program. good luck.