Comments on: Open Letter to Google: 99 ways to improve Gmail contacts.

By: R Taj Johal

R Taj Johal — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 05:41:22 +0000

I could not have described the need to improve Gmail contact better or in more detail than this. Thanks for taking the time and caring about gmail, especially contact part. I hope Google pays attention improves contact management. I use it with my Palm Pre and online, and find it very useful. It does need all those improvements, including the ability to label phone numbers, for example 530.123.4444 Joey cell, 530.123.3333 Joey Office, 530.123.2222 Joey shop. etc.

By: Maria Mora

Maria Mora — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:30:53 +0000

Original posting was November 2008… Do you know if there is something new about this issue? My school uses gmail as corporate email, and we need urgently to be able to share contacts!!! Do we have any good news?

By: sherman.boyd

sherman.boyd — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 15:43:44 +0000

When you check the little box next to a contact, the delete contact button appears in the upper right corner. If you have a smaller monitor you may have to scroll to the right to see it.

If you can’t find the contact to delete try searching for it (search bar at the top), or looking through the “Suggested Contacts” folder.

Email me at sherman@twocell.com if this doesn’t work out, and I would also suggest posting a your question on the Gmail discussion forums:

http://groups.google.com/group/Gmail-Help-Discussion

By: Jennifer page

Jennifer page — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 12:11:36 +0000

This granny would like to know how I can REMOVE NAMES FROM gmail ADDRESS BOOK yes I know I am shouting, but I am so fed up with trying. What is the good of being able to delete from contact box if the name aint there?
Mrs Page

By: Andrew

Andrew — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 17:16:45 +0000

I love idea 16. This is something Plaxo used to do but sadly does no longer.

By: Dave Craige

Dave Craige — Mon, 29 Dec 2008 19:14:56 +0000

completely agree. i wish that google would make an address book like apple has. except it could be shared just like google docs.

it would be such a killer app.

me.com is good, but we use gmail and docs for everything for our business and it would only make sense.

By: Franco Folini

Franco Folini — Tue, 23 Dec 2008 20:48:43 +0000

I couldn’t agree more with you!
I absolutely need to add information to my contacts about their LinkedIn profiles, Twitter ID, etc. And I need it to searchable. I need to select my contacts by company, state, etc.

Google is not realizing the huge potential of an efficient, powerful contact manager.

By: sherman.boyd

sherman.boyd — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 18:53:24 +0000

Absolutely. That brings to mind mail merge, in Docs and Gmail. I’ve added it to the list!

By: John Lumgair

John Lumgair — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:11:47 +0000

Well said, all of the above please.
It would also be great if it can “talk” to a google docs spreadsheet. I often import spreadsheets in to Apple Address book which is cool, but it would be great if contacts could be permanently synced between a spread sheet and address book.

By: Jon Riley

Jon Riley — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 23:57:14 +0000

I totally agree, after using it for a while, that Gmail’s address auto-populate feature becomes useless after a while. If someone has more than one email address, and my contacts list gets infected with alternate addresses, I’m reduced to going through old emails to figure out which one is the *real* address. I want to have one entry for each person, with a primary address I can choose, and multiple sub-addresses that won’t get in the way. I don’t mind doing the work to make that happen, but Gmail won’t even let me!