{"id":42869,"date":"2024-04-17T13:03:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T17:03:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=42869"},"modified":"2024-04-17T14:43:00","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T18:43:00","slug":"rediscovering-carddav","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/17\/rediscovering-carddav\/","title":{"rendered":"Rediscovering CardDAV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jpmens.net\/2020\/04\/12\/rediscovering-carddav\/\">Jan-Piet Men<\/a> (2020, via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=22847462\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/jpmens.net\/2020\/04\/12\/rediscovering-carddav\/\">\n<p>I can no longer sync iOS&rsquo; Contacts with my macOS Catalina&rsquo;s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I&rsquo;ve iCloud configured for Contacts which I do not.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I was spilling my sorrows on <a href=\"https:\/\/ckrey.de\">Christoph<\/a> who simply said he avoids all those issues by using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CardDAV\">CardDAV<\/a>. I slapped my forehead: I&rsquo;ve been using <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CalDAV\">CalDAV<\/a> for years, for synchronizing two calendars across devices: my own calendar across two Macs, an iPad, and an iPhone, and the family calendar across the family&rsquo;s devices. How could I have forgotten about <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CardDAV\">CardDAV<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p>I then created a <a href=\"https:\/\/sabre.io\/baikal\/\">Ba&iuml;kal<\/a> address book for myself, set up macOS and an iPhone to use that, and created a pseudo person&rsquo;s entry on the Mac and another on iOS, and experimented a bit with how long it takes either side to sync, etc. As soon as I was satisfied I copy\/pasted all contacts from macOS&rsquo; internal address book to its <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/CardDAV\">CardDAV<\/a> store.<\/p>\n<p>[&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.inf-it.com\/open-source\/clients\/carddavmate\/\">CardDAVMATE<\/a> is an Open Source CardDAV web client which is nice to use for editing some of the more esoteric (read: not available in the GUIs) vCard attributes, in particular those for spouse and the social profiles.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/19\/immich\/\">Immich<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/23\/carddav-at-fastmail\/\">CardDAV at FastMail<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/01\/using-owncloud-for-contacts-and-calendar-syncing\/\">Using ownCloud for Contacts and Calendar Syncing<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/06\/personal-contacts-and-calendar-syncing\/\">Personal Contacts and Calendar Syncing<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jan-Piet Men (2020, via Hacker News): I can no longer sync iOS&rsquo; Contacts with my macOS Catalina&rsquo;s Finder (the iOS sync portion of iTunes is now built into the Finder in macOS Catalina); the OS insists I&rsquo;ve iCloud configured for Contacts which I do not. 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