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Kevin Sun
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This is now complete! You can archive contacts, which will be hidden and not synced (if contact sync is turned on).
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Kevin Sun
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Ability to Hide Colder Contacts
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Samuel Jackson
Distant acquaintances leave a lot of "noise" in the system: you cannot easily hide your 3rd grade classmate, even if you do want to keep them tracked.
Really valuable to be able to flag a contact as "do not notify" and then they don't show up in reminders, birthdays, etc. Otherwise I have to prune a lot of people from Dex!
Kevin Sun
Hi Samnuel! Curious what the downside here might be for a) deleting these contacts or b) marking them as 'Don't keep-in-touch.' Other folks have also mentioned archiving too as a potential solution
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Samuel Jackson
Kevin Sun: One advantage comes back to import: if I delete them, I have to remember to not re-include them if I do a new import.
On the "keep in touch" front, I could create a group called "Track" and then filter the list to only include those contacts that are in the "Track" group... just a little involved.
I noticed this though when scanning birthdays. If I have 100 people with an April birthday but I only care about 10 of them, it's frustrating to scroll through. Yes, I won't get
reminders
about them all, but I would like the ability to hide contacts completely unless I search for them.Dex can add the smarts, or I can do the filtering, if I have the tools. But I want to manage it less at the level of import.
If other creative suggestions glad for them... feels like Dex is
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! to unifying my LinkedIn/FB/Email contacts, and letting me do CRM stuff to them, but I then need to manage the info overload risks.Kevin Sun
Samuel Jackson: This makes sense -- thanks!
What about something like 'archiving' a contact? We'd hide the contact is most views, except for a specific 'archived' few somewhere. Would that work for you?
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Samuel Jackson
Kevin Sun: yep sounds like a good proxy. Anything to help solve the tension of "I want this as my source of all contact truth" and "I really don't care about Joe from 3rd grade"
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Milad Imen
Kevin Sun: I like this idea as well! That way you can keep people in the system without them showing up everywhere and bogging me down from staying in touch with those that I really care about.
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Julian Martinez
Kevin Sun: Exactly.. the problem is that if you delete them.. they will reappear in different syncs. Probably 2/3 of my contacts are noise.. but for various reasons I don't want to delete them. This is my no1 feature need to go all-in with DEX and use it as the primary source of my contacts.
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Julian Martinez
Just curiosity.. for a long time gmail used to have that separation in contacts.... they had a list of "archived" contact when they autosaved when ever you emailed people.. but they never showed up in the core Contacts. Archived contacts have very limited functionality, but serve to keep noise out of the real list.
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Benuel Ganesan
Kevin Sun: this would work for me. Right now, I'm just deleting older contacts or stub contacts like a store I'll never visit again.
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Julian Martinez
Kevin Sun: Its a hard decision to make in UX terms... since it is a feature that affects the whole experience. Thats why I am not sure if the concept is "archived" or a toggle called "cold contacts" or "less important" or define these visibility options on a group level? Probably also, maybe some people need a way of also selecting "Top" or "Favourite" Contacts.. and those give special visibility. Its something that the Facebooks/Instagrams/Gmails.. have always had trouble with.. how do you classify your contact. I don't have the answer, but I do think it is worthwhile research and arrive to and elegant solution that everyone understands. I am sure that everyone need this feature.. its just that they dont know it yet, and it need to be implemented super intuitively. Good luck. Thanks.
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Ronnie Ledesma
So, basically, they're inactive, but could be reactivated when needed? I like.
Cyan Train
Ronnie Ledesma: Exactly.
Cyan Train
I'd like to be able to hide them from everywhere and then just have an "archive" where their details are kept. Kind of like moving these contacts to a folder to get them out of the way. I wouldn't get any reminders for them, wouldn't see any of their info anywhere else in Dex. This would be great for people important from Gmail, for example, but that I haven't spoken to in years. Or for clients I worked for years ago that may or may not reach out again in the future.
Kevin Sun
Cyan Train: Hi Sofie - just wanted to understand this in a bit more detail. Does this makes sense to you?
Archived contacts
- Show up in search bar
- You can still add details / events to archived contacts
- Show up in an archived contacts section
Archived contacts
- Never have a keep-in-touch frequency
- Never will be part of groups
- Never will show up in any pages other than the archived ocntacts page
Cyan Train
Kevin Sun: Yup that sounds good!
I think I'd also be fine with them being un-editable as long as they're archived. It seems logical to me that once you have new info to add, they shouldn't really be archived contacts.
I'm not sure if that would make it easier or harder to do though.