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signalapp / Flock

Private contact and calendar sync for Android.
https://signal.org/blog/flock
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feature request: ability to add tags to contacts #57

Closed cyanfr closed 9 years ago

cyanfr commented 10 years ago

It would be great to have the ability to add tags to contacts.

tinloaf commented 10 years ago

Tags? What good should that be? You can save notes for contacts with your default contact app, that's nothing that TS should do, IMHO.

cyanfr commented 10 years ago

The method google uses to organize/create groups is essentially tags. They call them groups but they work like tags. I was requesting this as an incremental step towards creating the same effect as it is quite useful on that system.

tinloaf commented 10 years ago

Oh I see. I mixed up repositories, sorry. m( Still, I don't think flock should be a data-entry tool. If possible, it should recognize the tags (or groups) from the contacts..

cyanfr commented 10 years ago

@rhodey mentioned in #41 that there was some restriction in Android making in hard for anyone but Google to create contact groups. But he said he would eventually get to it. So was just suggesting the tags (or some similar mechanism) as a step.

rhodey commented 9 years ago

@tinloaf I like google's UX for adding contacts to groups / tagging contacts so yes I think I'll try to mimic this behaviour closely. I just updated #41 with some information relevant to this feature, check it out and let me know what you think :)

The default Android "People" app does use the terminology of "groups" so whether or not we allow users to add tags or groups it will only be able to manifest within Android as groups. For now I'm going to close this as something of a duplicate but thanks for the extra insight :) I'll do my best to get contact groups / tag functionality out soon.