Address Book: how to do a smart group of unlisted cards ?

Hi,
I like having my cards organized in lists and I always browse contacts by lists. However, when creating a contact on my iPhone, I often forget to create it in the right list or I simply create it in All Contacts.
I would like to create a smart group that shows all the contacts that are not in a list.
It looks like there is an option for this:
New Smart Group
Card ... is not member of ... any group
But that just shows nobody ...
It seems like "any group" also includes All Contacts. And if that's the case, I would suggest to Apple to remove it from the "any group" definition. Because I don't see any use of this category if that's the case.
If you have another way of doing it, please share !
Thanks.

It seems like "any group" also includes All Contacts. And if that's the case, I would suggest to Apple to remove it from the "any group" definition.
Then you'll have to ask Apple. Try posting the suggestion here: http://www.apple.com/feedback/macosx.html
It used to work, so something must have broken it, recently.

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*See emphasis below* -
Importing and exporting vCards
A vCard, or "virtual address card," is a standard method of exchanging data between applications. Address Book can create and read vCards, so if you have another application that also works with the vCard format, you can import or export addresses as vCards.
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