Contacts
Your unified contact book — everyone from Google Contacts and the people you add manually, side by side, with tags, notes, and relationship history.
Overview
The contact book is the home of Remy. Everyone you know — synced from Google or added manually — lives in a single list, ordered by whatever signal matters most to you in the moment.
A contact in Remy is an identity (name, email, phone, company) plus your enrichment on top: tags, notes, and an optional "introduced by" link. Identity comes from Google for synced contacts and from you for manual ones. Everything else is yours, on every contact, regardless of source.
Browsing the List
The list is one row per contact, dense on purpose so you can scan without scrolling.
Each row shows:
- Name and role / company.
- Tags you've applied.
- Last contact — the date of the most recent note on this person. If you haven't written a note yet, this stays empty.
Hover any row to reveal that contact's emails and phone numbers without opening the detail sheet — useful when you need a quick lookup.
Search, Filter, Sort
Three controls at the top of the list narrow what you see.
- Search — matches name, email, and company. Note bodies are not searchable from this box; semantic note search is on the roadmap as part of the Remy-aware AI features.
- Filter by tag — pick one or more tags to limit the list to contacts who carry all of them.
- Sort — by name (alphabetical) or by last activity (most recent note first).
These three combine. You can search "Acme" while filtered to investor and sorted by last activity, and Remy applies all three at once.
The Detail Sheet
Click any row to open the contact's detail sheet. From here you can:
- Edit identity fields inline (name, role, company, emails, phones, etc.).
- Add or remove tags.
- Set or clear the introduced by link. See Introductions for how that connects people across your network.
- Read and write notes on the timeline. See Notes.
Edits save as soon as you move on. There's no "save" button.
Identity on Google contacts is owned by Google
Editing the name, email, or phone of a Google-sourced contact in read-only mode won't push back to Google — your change is local only and may be overwritten on the next sync. To push edits back, switch to bidirectional sync. See Google Sync for the ownership rules.
Bulk Operations
Select multiple contacts using the checkboxes at the start of each row to act on them as a group:
- Add or remove tags across the selection.
- Set "introduced by" to apply the same connector to several people at once (handy after a big intro).
- Delete the selection.
Bulk actions emit one Activity Log entry per affected contact, so you can audit them just like single-contact changes.
Keyboard Shortcuts
These are easy to miss but worth learning — once you have a few hundred contacts, scrolling becomes the slow path.
| Shortcut | What it does |
|---|---|
j | Move down one row |
k | Move up one row |
e | Edit the open contact (focus the first editable field in the detail sheet) |
Adding a Manual Contact
Use the Add contact button at the top of the list to create one by hand — useful for someone who isn't in your Google book yet, or who you don't want syncing to Google.
In bidirectional sync mode, manual contacts are uploaded to Google after the next sync run. In read-only mode, they stay local to Remy.
Deleting a Contact
Open the contact and choose Delete from the menu, or use bulk delete from the list.
There is currently no in-product way to restore a deleted contact
Manual contacts are kept in storage but are not reachable from any screen once deleted. There is no recycle bin, no Trash view, and no undo toast for contacts (unlike notes). A proper recycle bin is on the roadmap. Until then: if you're not sure, don't delete.
In read-only sync mode, Remy refuses to delete a Google-sourced contact at all — the next sync would resurrect it. See Why some deletes are blocked for what to do instead.
For the broader picture of what stays and what goes when you wipe data or close your account, see Delete data.
What Gets Logged
Every action on contacts shows up in your Activity Log:
- Contact Created — adding a manual contact.
- Contact Updated — editing any identity field, alone or in bulk.
- Contact Deleted — deleting a contact, alone or in bulk.
- Contact Tags Changed — replacing the tag set on a contact.
- Contact Intro Set — setting, changing, or clearing the "introduced by" link.
Sync-driven changes from Google appear under the Google category instead — see Google Sync.
Frequently Asked Questions
Can I import contacts from a CSV?
Not today. The supported import path is Google Contacts sync. If you have contacts elsewhere, the practical workflow is to import them into Google first, then connect Google to Remy.
Why does the same person appear twice?
If a contact in Google matches an existing manual contact by exact email, Remy surfaces it as a pending merge rather than merging automatically. See Pending merges.
Can I add a contact who doesn't have an email or phone?
Yes. Only the name is required. Notes, tags, and "introduced by" all work without contact info.
Do contacts deleted in Google get deleted in Remy?
Yes — on the next sync, Remy removes its local copy. No notification is sent today, even if you had notes on that person; closing this gap is on the roadmap.