Google Voice gives you a variety of ways to classify the phone numbers in your address book.  Currently the choices are Home, Work, Mobile, Home Fax, Work Fax, Pager and Other.  Unfortunately, sometimes that’s not enough.  You could use the Notes field for notes (try to look surprised J ) but with a lot of phone numbers it’s less than ideal to have too much separation on the screen between a phone number’s Call button and it’s description.

Here’s an alternative.  Google Voice ignores alphabetic and special characters in phone numbers.  Here’s an example of how you might use this feature for a someone who technically has three Home phone numbers and two Work phone numbers:

This is also a handy way to remind yourself of phone numbers that spell out cute things:

Thank You to Bruce Wagner for first pointing this one out to me!

Here’s something that I don’t really understand:  I assume that Home Fax and Work Fax are just there for the sake of completeness.  I don’t claim to be a fax expert but is it possible on some fax machines to receive a call (from Google Voice) and then transmit a fax when the machine at the other end answers?

 Steven (at) GoogleVoiceSecrets.com