9Jan/080
New Gmail Contact Manager Turned for the Worse
I still remember the old Gmail contact manager. It was great; I could enter custom labels for each section, and I wasn't constrained to "Home", "Work", and "Other". Some people have half a dozen or more email addresses, for example, and that kind of drop-down-menu labeling system doesn't work.
Google, please add back the ability to enter custom values for field types (a "Custom" option that could dynamically show a text box, maybe)! I used it all the time, and it's really missing from the new contact manager interface.
While we're on the subject of Gmail's contact manager, Zoli Erdos points out that there's no field for a homepage URL. It's not a new shortcoming, either; the old version also lacked that field type. Google! ...Please?
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