Script to drop text into Address Book "note" field?

Question

I wonder if anyone has any thoughts on this: I have about 6000 contacts and wanted to organize them by putting category descriptions of each contact into the notes field: ie, "friend," "architect," "designer," etc. Once done, they will be easy to keep organized via smart groups.
Could a script be written to do this? My contacts are already broken out into "dumb" groups, so could a script simply drop a note for all members of an existing group? Or all selected contacts?
The trick will be to add the text without wiping out any existing text. That way each contact could be assigned to more than one category.
This would be a very useful script, because Address Book does not presently have the "category" feature than other contact managers have, such as Entourage.
Any help greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

Suggestion:
6000 contacts - That's a lot. Before you get too carried away, I would add delimiters such as:
[note]" & contentsof_existingnote & "[/note]" & return, AND
[category]" & _category & "[/category]" & return
You could then add other functions to your AddressBook note field. I do this regularly and have added;
[addressee2] to add a roomates, significant other, or spouse that wanted to keep her maiden name and want to formerly include on an invitation or xmas card.
Mr. John Smith
Dr. Karen Jones, M.D. [addressee2, roomate, significant other]
1234 W. 56th Street
Anytown, ST, Zip
[spouse] spouse; review your contact list and greet them with "How is your wife Karen?"
[xmasprefix] mainly to add "Mr. & Mrs." to your contacts
[xmasfamily] include a personal touch; "and family"
Others, [iphotolinks], [envelopegraphic], [envelopeAttn_]
All kinds of possibilities here.
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