Comments on: Google, Contacts, and their API http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/03/06/google-contacts-api/ Random rants and wandering words Wed, 03 Dec 2008 08:13:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.5 By: Aaron B. Hockley http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/03/06/google-contacts-api/#comment-289514 Aaron B. Hockley Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:27:26 +0000 http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/03/06/google-contacts-api/#comment-289514 Good point Mike. I hadn't thought about that feature because honestly I never use it. I don't think about it... when I need to find email or conversations involving someone I type their name in the seach box and find it via search. But you bring up an interesting point... for folks that use that feature, it probably makes a lot of sense. Good point Mike. I hadn’t thought about that feature because honestly I never use it. I don’t think about it… when I need to find email or conversations involving someone I type their name in the seach box and find it via search.

But you bring up an interesting point… for folks that use that feature, it probably makes a lot of sense.

]]> By: Mike McBride http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/03/06/google-contacts-api/#comment-289508 Mike McBride Thu, 06 Mar 2008 18:18:44 +0000 http://www.anotherblogger.com/2008/03/06/google-contacts-api/#comment-289508 It's interesting, no one likes the fact that they add everyone to your contacts. I know I don't, but I sure like being able to click a name in my contacts list and see all the conversations I've had with that person. I think the easiest way to give you a way to look at conversations by person, was to link it to your contacts folder, and the only way to assure you saw all your conversations there, was to automatically add everyone you sent email to. So, in order to meet both of these requirements, they'd have to create yet another place to link conversations by name while leaving contacts as just a contacts folder. Or they could simply give up the idea of showing you conversations tracked by who you emailed to when that person isn't a contact. I'm not saying they shouldn't do that, but this might help explain why they made what seems like a very illogical design decision... It’s interesting, no one likes the fact that they add everyone to your contacts. I know I don’t, but I sure like being able to click a name in my contacts list and see all the conversations I’ve had with that person. I think the easiest way to give you a way to look at conversations by person, was to link it to your contacts folder, and the only way to assure you saw all your conversations there, was to automatically add everyone you sent email to.

So, in order to meet both of these requirements, they’d have to create yet another place to link conversations by name while leaving contacts as just a contacts folder. Or they could simply give up the idea of showing you conversations tracked by who you emailed to when that person isn’t a contact. I’m not saying they shouldn’t do that, but this might help explain why they made what seems like a very illogical design decision…

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