‘Add to Contacts’ fills in the gaps on Windows Phone 8.1 by helping you save those searches

Windows Phone viii.1 is pretty awesome; there's no dubiousness nigh that. Microsoft seems to accept improved just about everything in that location is, only there will always be a few $.25 that are missing. One of those we even forgot ourselves: saving search results to contacts.

Case in betoken: you do a search in Cortana (or Bing, for non-United states users) for an establishment similar a diner or coffee terminate. Powered by Bing, Cortana will practice a swell job of finding what you're looking for in a jiffy. But let's say you at present wanted to add together that find to your People Hub for future reference? Maybe you're new in boondocks, or you found a flower store you really like. Evidently, you still tin can't exercise that on Windows Phone, even with 8.1.

Liquid Daffodil, a popular developer house who makes apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8, has released a brand new version of their 'Add to Contacts' app. We've covered this app in the past, and we're happy to see it become a makeover and integration into 8.1.

Hither'due south how information technology works:

Launch the app
Agree to it using your location
Search in the app for what you are looking for
Edit fields, if necessary, then add to your contacts

But that's kind of lame, no? If you're using Bing or Cortana, who wants to launch a separate app each time?

Luckily, you don't have to, due to some clever usage of the new Share picker.

'Add to Contacts' using Bing or Cortana (New)

Search for your institution
Tap on the ane that y'all want from search results
Hit the Share button (in the heart)
Select 'Add to Contacts' app

And that's it. You lot'll see a banner notification telling you it was successful and now that location, including all the fields, have been saved to your contacts. It's simple, shrewd, and we honey it.

To catch Add together to Contacts, caput here to the Store. The app costs 99 cents with no free trial, simply we can vouch that information technology works quite well. The developer is a well-known correspondent to the Microsoft ecosystem, having a dozen pop apps. Plus it will go gratis, for a short fourth dimension, once 8.1 official releases. Windows Phone viii.1 only.

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