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Gmail Adds a Contact Picker

Source: Google Operating System

Aug 26, 2009

Summary

Gmail is probably one of the last Google services that adds a very simple feature: a contact picker. When you compose a message, you may want to see the list of contacts so you can select some of them. But this feature wasn't available in Gmail, although you could find it in Google Docs, Google Calendar and in almost any mail client and webmail service. Some people even wondered if you can send messages to more than one address: questions like "Why can't I load multiple contacts when I go to compose?" or "How do I compose using my address book?" were very popular in Gmail's help group.

"Auto-complete is convenient and fast, and usually does the trick. But sometimes seeing your list of contacts can help you remember all the people you want to include on your email," admits Google.

The wait is over and now you can finally use the contact picker in Gmail: just click on "To" when you compose a message, select the contacts and click "Done".

Some of the cool things you can do using the contact picker:

* select contacts from one of your groups: just use the drop-down to ...Read the full article

Comments (1)

Bo Bo Misiu,

Aug 27, 2009

Well, gmail is out of beta. Maybe we will see features added.