New iOS App CrumbTrail Launches To Help Manage 'How You Know, Who You Know'

CrumbTrail, an iOS app to manage ‘how you know, who you know’, launches today to make networking and contact management easier.   

The app transforms the traditional phonebook from a basic directory with limited functionality and reliant on human memory into a valuable tool to manage professional and private networks, dynamically update contact information, and connect with individuals and groups.

Whereas a smartphone traditionally categorises entries in alphabetical order, CrumbTrail adds valuable context to a contact such as where you met and when you met to help the user remember the reason they added the contact.

From auto tagging of date/time and location to adding private notes and images, CrumbTrail ensures you always remember who you met and why you added them in your phone.

Key features include:

• Contact filters - Search your CrumbTrail phonebook by the date or location the contact was added, by keyword tags or categorized groups, and by your friends current address location.

• Notifications Centre – Keep your contacts updated in real time. A notification is sent to CrumbTrail when a contact updates their details, adds new information, or removes information.

•Contact restore – save your contacts to the CrumbTrail cloud so you never lose your contacts and the unique information for each.

•Memory area – Always remember how you met someone. Each contact has a memory area where you can add private notes or images alongside date/time and location where you met to ensure you always remember why that person is in your phone.

•Profile sharing – Create custom profiles cards for business or personal use and control the information you share with others based on the occasion.  CrumbTrail enables users to share this information seamlessly by simply dragging, dropping and sharing profiles through the app. No more manual contact entry!

QUOTATIONS

Eren Erman, founder and CEO of CrumbTrail stated:

“Social networks such as Facebook and LinkedIn have become an integral part of our networking DNA. Our ability to meet new people via various communication outlets means we now have more contacts to manage than ever before.  Phone books on smart phones however have failed to keep pace and still organise contacts in alphabetical order.  Our brain remembers the people we meet in a different way.  We’re more likely to remember where, when or how we met someone than their name or title and the traditional phonebook doesn’t take this into account.  CrumbTrail answers this problem providing context around the people you meet and ensuring we always remember why we added that person in our phone.”

Eren continued:

“The idea for CrumbTrail came from my own experiences travelling and working around the world.  It got to the stage where I had over 2,000 contacts in my phonebook and no way of remembering where I met them or why I added them to my phonebook in the first place.  It’s much easier to remember a person’s face, the place where we met, or something we had in common rather than their name, phone number or business title.  CrumbTrail was developed with this in mind.”

CrumbTrail is now available to download globally from iTunes for AUD $0.99.

Check out how CrumbTrail works on Vimeo, visit the CrumbTrail website, check out the Facebook page or follow CrumbTrail on Twitter