Organize contacts in folders
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Hi,
would be nice to be able to create folders for contacts just like you can do for bookmarks.
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@larsen0815
Hi,
Better is suppprt for groups (tags). -
Do you mean to assign different tags to one contact, like "company", "sports"?
And then be able to compose a mail to all contacts with the tag "company" at once? -
@larsen0815 said in Organize contacts in folders:
Do you mean to assign different tags to one contact, like "company", "sports"?
And then be able to compose a mail to all contacts with the tag "company" at once?That's how I'd like it to work at least.
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Sounds good.
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@burnout426
I support that idea as well.
It would be great to be able to create different mailing lists by adding group tags to any contact.
Or at least to have folders as in Opera M2 mail client. -
Not to forget carddav support!
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@uhbwitt64 said in Organize contacts in folders:
@burnout426
I support that idea as well.
It would be great to be able to create different mailing lists by adding group tags to any contact.
Or at least to have folders as in Opera M2 mail client.I agree. I really miss the contacts folders of M2. Hope the dev team is actively working on including this feature.
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@oziian3880 A really important feature, when realized ?
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@oziian3880 said in Organize contacts in folders:
I agree. I really miss the contacts folders of M2. Hope the dev team is actively working on including this feature.
Thought I'd throw in some simple examples of how I used 'Folders' in M2:
Personal All friends and people I email regularly.
Business Business contacts, suppliers, etc I email regularly.
Archive ALL other contacts I haven't used for quite a while, but don't want to delete just yet.
SMB A select group of friends that I would multiple email using the 'Add All' option (right click on the folder).From memory, I think M2 also had a default Deleted folder ... just in case you didn't REALLY want to permanently delete a contact.
That's not a huge number of folders, but it made my emailing life a lot easier.
At the moment my 'Contacts ' list is a jumble of ... well ... all contacts. I haven't been able to find a way to achieve M2's 'Folder' convenience using tags, etc. Perhaps someone could show an alternative to 'Folders' in current Vivaldi Mail (M3)?
M2 was full of simple & logical functionality and zero bugs (that I know of in the 10+ years I had been using it). It would be a hard act to follow. I hope M3 developers can, however, eventually emulate the perfection that was M2.
(Edited 2022-01-27)
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Folders for contacts are even worse than they are for emails. What if a friend is also a colleague. Do I put that contact in personal or business, or do I create a copy?
M2's contact management is OK but not great. Tags/labels that you can filter for are much better as the core concept.
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G'day!
@wildente said in Organize contacts in folders:
Folders for contacts are even worse than they are for emails. What if a friend is also a colleague. Do I put that contact in personal or business, or do I create a copy?
M2's contact management is OK but not great. Tags/labels that you can filter for are much better as the core concept.
~ Don't use multiple email folders - road to lunacy IMHO. ("Now ... which mail folder did I put that email into?") Use M3s 'All messages' in reverse chronolical order (newest at top). If you want to find emails to/from a particular person use M3s excellent email search function. Ditto with business names.
~ Friend or colleague? Yep - add to each and every contact folder (copy) as required.
~ Personally, I found M2s Contact management (when driven correctly) was great to use. You could edit and file contacts any way you wanted. BTW In M2, moving a contact into a new contacts folder was drag-n-drop. So easy! Worked for me.
~ Tags / labels? I tried to make it work for me in M3. As I understand it, you have to tag / filter / label each time you want a name or bunch of names to add to an email. In M2 and using a Contacts folder, all you have to do is right click on a folder (ie SMB) and then 'Add all'. All 15 contacts in that folder are then added directly to the 'To:' address line. Does it get any easier than that?
~ Haven't got my head around M3s 'Mailing Lists' yet. One day ...
I suggest we're now off topic, however. The original post was suggesting a new or requested feature be included in future M3 development - contact folders - just like M2 used to be able to do (way back in 1994?)!
Perhaps this should be continued in another post?
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@OziIan3880
I agree that M2 was easy to send an email to a group of contacts: select a folder and click "Compose" and the contacts in the group/folder were added to the address line. For me that is the most important feature to add in Vivaldi mail. -
G'day all.
The good news for Vivaldi Mail (M3) is that the 'beta' label has disappeared and we're at Mail 1.0.
Sadly, in Vivaldi 5.4x, nothing has been done to address M3's 'Contacts' problems.
There is still no ability to sort alphabetically (even though the pull-down 'Sort by Name' appears to give that possibility. Contacts are still randomly jumbled.
Has ANYONE found a way to sort the Contacts list?
Being able to put contacts into at least alphabetical order is essential to being able to find a contact. Shouldn't have to use the 'Search' function.
As this topic was about folders in contacts - nope - that wasn't addressed either.
SIGH! Maybe v2.0 might get these problems sorted.
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@oziian3880
I think that contacts is still a bit rough in Vivaldi 5.4 and actually does not sort contacts by name.Tried to rename the contacts, but it worked only for one address
- Right click edit contact, then type f.ex. [email protected] and contact pops at the top of the list
- But for next contacts it didn't work anymore. Somehow sorting is broken.
- Creating a new contact with [email protected] appears at the end of the list. So, most likely a bug
However, what you can do (but it's not that elegant)
- Rename contacts with prefixes corresponding to classification of future folders
1_ProjectA__Name@
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2_ProjectB
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3_Accounting_Name...
Then in search field above contacts you can type "2_" and only contacts belonging to projectB will appear. You can then select all addresses in that group and send one email to all of them.
Another option is to have names like
_Accounting...
IT...
_Clients...
Then you can search by "_A" and get to all accounting with further separation.But let's hope that there will be some features for sorting contacts out in the future
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.... Another option. Actually you can add multiple emails to one contact and when you click compose, message will be sent to multiple emails. You can name that contact "Group_..."
Still not ideal, but until features are implemented, it can help -
One more option (but not yet working) is to use Note field in contact to store some keywords like project1, etc. One day search in Contacts will be able to pick information in Note field and one would be able to retrieve all contacts related to project1. But this is not working yet (but normally should in the future)
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Version 5.5 does the sorting. Good.
