Changes to GMail Contacts Manager

Posted by Saad Ibrahim 19 July, 2008

One thing I like about Google is that they keep on adding new features and improving the current features frequently, the latest being the changes to the contact manager, earlier when you used to send email to someone he would be added to the contacts list so that when next time you want to send an email to the same person you type first few letters of his email address and a bunch of suggestions show up in auto complete list (which is a good feature) but now the problem is that if you send a lot of emails to different people then they all get added to the contact list and the auto complete list grows huge with time making it less efficient.

The Gmail team in a bid to fix this have modified the contacts manager and sorted the contact in to three categories that are as follows:

“My Contacts”-these are the contacts you have manually added or contacted a lot in the past
“Most Contacted”-the people you have contacted the most, if number of times you have emailed a certain person increases he is automatically added to My Contact (at least five time)
“Suggested Contacts”- all the people you have emailed are added automatically in this category

To access the contact manager click on the contacts link under Gmail folders and above labels box on the left sidebar: