Why does every contact have to link to an email account or other?
Yes, I want to be signed into my email addresses to check on emails from work and my home utility suppliers, but I want my contacts list to be separate, not people from work or British Gas.
For example, THE MILKMAN... I occasionally like to send him a text to say 'no milk this weekend, thanks'.
I don't want to save him to my works outlook account, and I don't want to add him to my personal outlook account, and I certainly don't want to see him on facebook.
So where can I save the Milkman and his number???
Is there a phone book App?
Well there IS a new app call
'Temp Contacts' which addresses your specifics as well as possibly the OP of the thread as well.
Here is a
wpcentral thread about it
Temp Contacts makes a
separate phone/contact list which integrates with the People Hub...
but can be filtered out in the People Hub settings. If you filter the Temp Contacts then they are gone from the People Hub live tile and invisible in the People Hub list (tho searchable). The Temp Contact list does not sync to your social apps or email accounts...unless you want them too and can be done on an individual basis.
Disadvantage:
- The contact info is stored in the app at the present time though a Skydrive backup might be a possible app update solution. So that is the obvious weak point in that a hard reset will delete your contact info.
- There is no editing in the app, but it can be edited (and additional info added) via the People Hub entry
Advantages:
- Perfect for temp/throw-away contacts who you don't want to see in your home page People Hub Live Tile....or to muddle up your People Hub contact list with secondary contacts (if you filter out the Temp Contacts)
- None of the Temp Contacts sync to your MS accounts/Facebook/email......unless you want them to. (Sync ability is in settings at each contact)....so you're not meshing these contacts with your facebook or other contact sync lists....unless you want to...and then are able to do it on a selective basis.
- Cleans the clutter out of the People Hub list so you can actually find the person you want to call easily.
- You will see a received/sent call from the Temp Contact list in your 'History' and 'Recent' pages of your People Hub. And you will see the incoming call info from the Temp Contacts.
- No social texts/updates from these contacts...unless you want them.
I'm going to use it for businesse services, general 'local scout'/'latitude' type stuff for frequent contacts(ie dentist/doctor/plumber/pizza order-out/car repair shop/etc), mainly to keep the People Hub about close friends and family so that the social syncing works for them and I don't get the clutter from the second tier contacts now stashed in Temp Contacts.
The OP might use the Temp Contacts app in reverse fashion...eg turn it into their main contact/phone list and keep all their Facebook/Twitter contacts and social syncing going on in the People Hub as was stated as their desire.
This app separates the social syncing from the contacts which is what was the original problem of the OP, no?