Finally

Jnetty

Whoa - talk about slow rollout. I had the functionality for a minute - took the time to move suggested to "My Contacts" and then....voila. Functionality gone. BOOO!

Still - it's about time they fixed that. I hated cleaning out my contact list because one of my friends sent out a mass email asking for money for a marathon for cancer or situations like that....

georgegsmithjr

Wow - I have the functionality. It rocks. Had to go add about 1/3rd of my real contacts who were on the suggested list - but this definitely helps so much. ABOUT TIME GMAIL!!!!!!!!

georgegsmithjr

No love here, either. I also just noticed that my Lab icon is gone and I no longer have Labs as a selection in my Settings menu either. I guess the fun is over for these last few experiments.

Nuclear Moose

I dont have the new contacts system. :( I am sad...

huntsterUNC

Thank the Computer geeks, erm gods!

It's about time, now when I sync I won't get all the weird emails that I don't really want there.

strega

I see it too. Don't forget it even catorgorizes Medical Contacts too. It's not bad - but it still needs improvements.

Busko

I see it in my account. Seems like it pretty much made 2 new groups. My Contacts, and Suggested Contacts. When looking at a suggested contact there is a button on the top that says "Move to My Contacts", which puts that person in the My Contacts group.

Creakhead

It's already available in my dutch version of Gmail, but it doesn't play nice with the Gmail Redesigned theme (black text on a dark background). It's still quite useful.

jomme

about time! as a matter of fact, i just emailed google about this yesterday!

drsphincter

Wow...about time Google. Can't wait til this hits my account.

oshae

not yet!, but looking forward to have it and use it :)

ChambrasWeed

thank the dear lord!

AvatarZ

Very nice. And especially so since I sync Gmail with my Address Book with my iPod. Isn't that a freaking weird path?

Anyways, Contacts now have a separate category called Suggestions that you can select all and delete if you want. I used it to copy out the information by hand and insert it into the real contacts.

It would be nice to have a merge feature.

Justin

I don't see it in my account yet, but I'm really looking forward to it! This is the main feature that I never really liked about Gmail. Sure, it might make it easier for some users to have addresses auto-inserted into their Contacts list, but for me, it has always been such a hassle to keep going through my list and delete all of the people whom I've only ever emailed once. Hopefully this new feature will show up in my account soon!

kalemaat

FINALLY!!! It was so annoying deleting all those sale-xxxxxx@craigslist.org email addresses.

strabes

I guess I don't see this as a big deal... I never manually look at my contacts. When I compose a memo, the typeahead fills in the likely contacts, and I pick from the list. I can relate to the sale-xxx@craigslist.org addresses (as mentioned by strabes above), but I only have a handful of those.

I kind of like that Google remembers contacts without me having to manually add them... However, I suppose I should point out that I currently have about 500 contacts, not 5000, so I guess that would make a big difference.

zkam

The killer feature I need is shareable contacts and groups, just like shareable documents. My wife and I both end up with repeated contacts.

The other nice feature, but less common, would be composite entries for households/companies. This way one can create a "the Smiths" entry with the same physical address but separate email addresses (or even separate phones) for each family member.

Oh well, one can only hope...

fsmontenegro

I'd love to know why Gmail wiped out 90% of my contacts. I still have not got a straight answer how that one happened.

xxdesmus

Oops, it doesn't break it. But I still don't see a move option.

Dignan17

I have a "My contacts" and "suggested contacts," but I don't see any way to move between them.

And like another user, my Remember the Milk is broken.

Dignan17

FINALLY!!! THANK THE GOOGLE GODS!

But my Remember the Milk is broken now... D:

nmaster64

I see it too.. nice feature.

laroi

Yay! Now google likes me. It'll be so nice now. No more cleaning out the contact list every month or so. Thanks Google!!

huntsterUNC

I'm already seeing it in both my regular gmail account and my Google Apps account. First thing I did was uncheck the "Automatically add..." option. Thank the FSM they finally got around to implementing this feature. Now syncing with Apple's Address Book is actually useful.

dgibbs83

:( Google still doesnt like me.

huntsterUNC

I just noticed this. Great new feature. I think this may motivate me to finally organize my contacts.

aperson

I'm surprised so many people don't have the "Move to My Contacts" button. My GMail has the button. It also has a "Erase Contact's Google Calendar" button, a "Read Contact's Google Notebooks" button, a "Locate Contact in Google Maps" button, and (my personal favorite) a "Peek Through Contact's Bedroom Window in Google Earth" button.

Terry

I'm seeing it...nice feature...I'll have to watch closely and see how / when it decides to move someone from "Suggested Contacts" to "My Contacts" in order to determine whether or not to leave the box checked.

psulion

It's in my regular account and domains account! This is the best improvement Gmail has made to date. I can't tell you how excited I am about not having so many people in my contacts. Now I can't actually sync with my iPhone!

JayCaldwell

seeing it in Finland

Fain

This is a nice improvement made by the team.thnks for sharing ...:)

vidyadhariiit

Not very impressed.

antonio

just noticed that in the chat sidebar you can also select the contact list size. With these two features, I may actually start utilizing my contact list.

AdamG

works for me! now on to the mysterious art of making friends.

LuKeNuKuM

I've got the My Contacts thing.

Seems to work OK. Got about 20 address in my Most Contacted list which is about right.

Richard Cosgrove

I've got it and I didn't even know about it. :P

I like that they put it in "suggested contacts" that separates them from my own. I'll likely keep it that way for now. It is handy when I'm going back to search for something I emailed to someone.

@Dignan17: They've moved them already, so you don't have to.

magnoliasouth

not in mine yet...one feature I would like though is to be able to mass delete on searched contacts. For example I have a lot of gigs@craigslist in mine that I would like to get rid of

caedus

I have a bunch of contacts under "my contacts" that I've only emailed once or twice.

Anyway to move them to "suggested contacts"?

-a-

antonio

hmm, looks like my wish has been granted.

caedus

I've got it. It seems to work pretty well, as far as organizing my contacts list goes. The majority of the contacts it selected for My Contacts were people I actually e-mail, or want to easily find their information. I approve-stamp this one.

amesville

I just realised that the gmail contact-management has been improved significantly! Don't know, when this has been rolled out, but it's the first time I see (on my german gmail) that it is possible to save multiple email-adresses, phone-numbers and adresses on one contact. Great!!

gwegner.de

using better Gmail with redesigned and other skins leaves lots of places on the address bar / contacts showing "undefined"..

maverick1981

I've got it. Digging it too.

edicius

Great idea, but one thing that I find annoying is that if you try to add a contact or email address existing contact and it is in one of the suggested contacts it won't let you - "Error saving data: Cannot have more than one contact with email address '******@****.***'"

Arcking

@caedus: you can search for craigslist and select all contact and hit the delete button.

I would love to see some stats like number of mails to each contact to and from, also be able to sort by these numbers. Finally a network of contacts i.e. who all are usually mailed together like a correlation between of sorts.

rohitdas

I got all excited and didn't read the description well. Went to the suggested contact list and started moving the ones I don't contact to my contact list. Later realized my mistake, but now there is no way to revert. You cannot remove items from My Contacts to suggested contact, its a one way street.

rohitdas

At long last!
Am deleting the suggested contacts now, adding ones I need to Outlook, ready to do a full sync with GMail!
Thanks for the heads up, as always!

3B Web Design

Ah, I got it. :D cool

surfmadpig

it's about freakin time! i hate that every email sent the address gets in my contacts! tks google and please dont take so long next time...

CoolGeek

SUH-WEET!

gwhite13

hmmm...hasn't shown up in mine yet either.....I'm glad they fixed it (sort of), that was one of the only annoying parts about switching to gmail.

fraxrfixr

It seems to work well enough, but I thought it would be a little smarter than it is. Still, it didn't take too much effort to go through and add in the handful of contacts that I thought it missed.

cannonlover

Yup, my account now has a list of suggested contacts. I also really like the layout of the new contacts page. Having the individual and group panes on the same screen (and having an big + for adding individual contacts to the group pane) is really intuitive. Much cleaner than Hotmail, for example, in which every mode looks the same and it's actually hard to tell if you are managing contacts or looking at email.

totlol