Google is completely overhauling its old, embarrassing contacts manager | The Verge

Google is completely overhauling its old, embarrassing contacts manager | The Verge

March 03, 2015 March 02, 2015 March 01, 2015 Sure, Gmail is great — but its contacts manager is far from a best-in-class web app. Many people have had to suffer through de-duping a messy system that pulls in everyone you've ever emailed, anyone you may have dropped in a Google+ circle, and the actual, fully-fleshed out contact cards you may have added over the years. Thankfully that's all changing: Google just announced that it is launching a completely revamped contacts interface, and you can jump into a preview of the new app now. Aside from a sweeping, Material Design visual overhaul (the Contacts page feels much more like the new Inbox email system than the old Gmail interface), the biggest new feature is a much improved duplicate finding feature. When you first log on to the new Contacts page, it'll alert you to the number of duplicates you have in your contact list and let you go one-by-one through them to merge the relevant details.

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