I'm struggling folks. I have too many contacts to sort, and I just am finding Thunderbird's contact management clunky and inefficient and have complaints about Kontact… I mean, if this is all there was, I could live with it, but I feel like I'm constantly fighting things. When I use Google Contacts, I'm fighting another battle — telling Google who I know. I hate this.

At some level, this is an impossible battle. Nearly everyone is on Twitter and LinkedIn and Facebook and Google whatever and so on. If I connect with people and want to note my contacts, I can't manage to clutter my personal contacts with hundreds of entries unless I can really effectively sort them, such as with tags that are easy to filter quickly.

I want to mark all the different sorts of contacts on my own private system and not tell corporations who I know. But I feel like this is eating all my time and energy. I'm about ready to give in and just finally more actively connect with everyone on LinkedIn and Twitter (ugh!!) — of course, I'll still use pump.io and some private notes and such but…

What should I do? It feels like useless self-sacrifice sometimes to just avoid these things unless I can find a solution that is truly powerful enough otherwise.

Please please please come help us build Snowdrift.coop, donate to our development etc. — I can't see any other way out of this conundrum other than really changing the economy and better funding free/libre/open solutions.

Anyway, I did check out Owncloud's contacts which are okay, but there's no search feature even. Etc. etc. everything is just about usable and not good. I would love to hear about something promising or a better solution…