Better duplicate / deduplicate detection for merge and fix
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Matthew Silberman
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I'm so excited to announce that this is now complete!
You can read more about these changes here (https://getdex.com/docs/workflows/organize-your-contacts) or read the key details below:
- Nicknames are supported (ask us to add more if we’re not matching your contacts!)
- Middle names are no longer considered and will not exclude possible duplicates.
- Special characters are handled appropriately!
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Olivier Reuland
Matthew Silberman Wait, what? I just reported a dozen problems to you showing that this is far from done and you close this? I'm confused here.
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Matthew Silberman
Hi Olivier, thanks for the message. In general, on Canny, I'm marking requests as complete once we ship significant updates; for any further improvements needed, I'll create further requests.
We did make the above-described fixes, which means Merge & Fix now handles many obvious cases that it missed before — but as you've pointed out, there's still more we need to do. Our work isn't finished and I'll track your feedback in a separate request.
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Olivier Reuland
Matthew Silberman Sorry, but this hasn't been fixed at all. I sent you detailed screenshots showing the very cases that have been merged in this ticket thathatn you have now declared fixed:
- "it doesnt seem to detect duplicates very well, even when the first and last name are the same" - not fixed
- "Many contacts on LinkedIn have titles such as "MBA", "CFP", "CFA", etc. " - not fixed
- "recs based on email, first name only" - not fixed
- "e.g. for similar names, variations, or mispellings (i.e. Jane Doe, Jane S. Doe, Jaame Doe)" - not fixed
- "I have a LinkedIn contact with name "John Smith" and a nameless GMail contact whose email is "john@smith.consulting"" - not fixed.
- and so many more merged here that you decided to make dissapear
Declaring something as fixed when you haven't even consulted people who reported the issues
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Matthew Silberman
Hi Olivier, the cases in that list that weren't addressed by this week's improvements are included in this new request: https://roadmap.getdex.com/feature-requests/p/further-improvements-to-deduplication-merge-fix
Matthew Silberman
in progress
Matthew Silberman
Merged in a post:
Improved Merging Suggestions
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Cam Wright
Many contacts on LinkedIn have titles such as "MBA", "CFP", "CFA", etc. For example, John Smith on Facebook might be John Smith, MBA on LinkedIn. Can you improve the merge suggestions to account for this?
Matthew Silberman
Merged in a post:
Need better Merge
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Andrew D
Ability to use AI, give recs based on email, first name only
Matthew Silberman
Merged in a post:
Better Merge AI
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Darco
Ability to see merge ideas for Karen and Karen Anderose as an example, recognizing a contact may have been spelt wrong in phone or only put in first name
Matthew Silberman
Merged in a post:
Improve merge and fix by identifying similar names
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Erika L
e.g. for similar names, variations, or mispellings (i.e. Jane Doe, Jane S. Doe, Jaame Doe)
Matthew Silberman
Merged in a post:
Merge Contacts
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Brian Johnson
Improve merge contacts or add a manual way to do it, it doesnt seem to detect duplicates very well, even when the first and last name are the same
Matthew Silberman
planned
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Quinn McHugh
Trying the free trial now. The prospect of having to merge 500+ of my Google Calendar / GMail contacts with their LinkedIn profiles is not great.
For example:
I have a LinkedIn contact with name "John Smith" and a nameless GMail contact whose email is "john@smith.consulting"
Dex does not recognize these two as being duplicates. The same issue is present for several hundred other contacts.
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Anthony Gutierrez
I'd like better visibility into how the merging works. Which entry wins? What order is used for phone, email, addresses if different? Which photo wins? AND.... ability to UNDO a merge. I accidentally merged 1 contact because of similar first name with no way to undo it. I had to recreate contact #2, and manually remove the merged info from contact #1.
Kevin Sun
Anthony Gutierrez: quick note: for phones, emails, and addresses we'll create the merged contact with all of them! For photo / title / name and other fields where we have to choose, we pick the most recently created contact!
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