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Export Contacts to Markdown

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Export your contacts with all details and notes.

What you get

  • One Markdown file per card, named after the person or the company
  • Phones, emails, addresses, websites, social profiles, dates, relationships and groups in its front matter, then the job and company, and the card’s note
  • With Messages connected, each card links to its conversations
  • An addressbook:// link opens the card in Contacts
  • After each sync, a page per person in people links their messages, calls and events

Where the files go

alto-index/contacts/Alba Ashdown.md
alto-index/contacts/groups/<group>/<name>.md
alto-index/contacts/companies/<company>/<name>.md

What you choose

  • Tick the cards to export
  • One folder, by group or by company; the files move on the next sync

Left out

  • Contact photos
  • Gmail’s entries that are only an email address

Free

Contacts is free, with no limit.

With Claude

/altoindex:contacts in the Claude plugin looks up a person, and the MCP server lets Claude Desktop search your contacts.