KAddressBook

KAddressBook is a powerful address book application integrated in the KDE-PIM suite.

Introduction

KAddressBook stores all the personal details of your family, friends and other contacts. It supports large variety of services, including NextCloud, Kolab, Google Contacts, Microsoft Exchange (EWS) or any standard CalDAV server.

How to get started

Create a new address book

First create a address book, by right clicking on the Address Books section, to open a context menu, and then click on Add Address Book....

Create a new address book.

You will now see a list of differents supported services, NextCloud, Google Contacts, ... Choose the services you want to use.

Note

If you want a local file to save the address book, select vCard File

Select a service for the new address book.

You then need to configure the service, by for example giving your credentials, or if you prefer using a local file giving the path to the file (can be new or already existing).

Configure the service.

Backing up your Data

The page Akonadi and AddressBook helps you understand the structure of KAddressBook, so that you can be sure that you have backed up all that you need.

Troubleshooting

A number of common 'teething problems' have been reported in versions shipped with KDE SC 4.4. Many of them disappeared with the advent of 4.4.1, but if you still get error messages, Akonadi 4.4 Troubleshooting has solutions to many problems.