Organizing my Address Book (and keeping it updated)

Some KuchiiKooo stuff here .. I hope you sympathize with me... Having over 1092 peoples details ... I am having a hard time consolidating all my friends and colleagues addresses till now..

All these years i have been majorly in Hyderabad ... from Japan... from Pune .. from Hyderabad ... from Delhi from Indore ... from Bhopal. Its just 6 places till now, still the list of address books is HUGE and its really difficult to manage. (I can not rely on my address book I need to rely on his/her email address to verify where the person is right now )

For eg: Suppose if someone whom you met in BHopal came to Hyderabad got married and is now living in BHatinda ... How do you keep track of his kids names their DoBs wifes name his marriage anniversary .. and what not apart from just his present Address... company he is working for and phone number. It would be rude to ask all the time and more often than not I just miss wishing my friends on their birthdays or marriage anniversaries.

I really envy people who have a knack of remembering these details in their head (Like my dear friend Ambikesh Pagare). Wonder if this can be fed into some kinda computer program in a better organized way.

- (I was looking at BatchBook.com but Do not want to get locked into proprietory website/software at all also there is a limit on number of contacts you can add there Whick is a Yucky thing )

- Outlook Sucks at this organization level.

Trying Evolution .. but not sure how to group all these people who are just moving around from one place to another like hummingbird on steroids.


How to best organize address books and also to keep them updated. How do you guys do it.