Add Phone Numbers, Address, Notes To The Contacts
Add Phone Numbers, Address, Notes To The Contacts
ProtonMail contacts now offers additional encrypted fields within contacts, including phone numbers, addresses, and notes: https://protonmail.com/blog/encrypted-contacts-manager/
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Bryan Kim commented
Agreed; the field should be fixed to be more flexible and accept inputs such as ones adhering to ISO-8601.
And, I agree that there should be no default value of today. The field should be empty by default, like any other field in the Contacts form. -
sdiggly commented
Please allow adding custom date fields for contacts. You currently allow Birthdays and Anniversaries, but would also like Custom fields like Google Contacts allows. This would allow me to add kids' birthdays, dates of promotions, etc. These dates should show up in Proton Calendar once they've been added to a contact.
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Scott Odell commented
I don't know what the plan is for the improvement of the content of the contact record, but I would suggest a more robust set of selectable fields to store important information in the contact record. For example, a freeform Notes field, a Company field, more alternate phone number fields, Birthday field, etc. I want to get completely off of Google, and improvements in this area would help me a lot. Let me know if you are interested in me providing you with a wireframe of the UI for this....I would be happy to.
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Scott Odell commented
I don't know what the plan is for the improvement of the content of the contact record, but I would suggest a more robust set of selectable fields to store important information in the contact record. For example, a freeform Notes field, a Company field, more alternate phone number fields, Birthday field, etc. I want to get completely off of Google, and improvements in this area would help me a lot. Let me know if you are interested in me providing you with a wireframe of the UI for this....I would be happy to.
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Benjamin Donovan commented
The Birthday field in the contacts manager seems very restrictive. It only accepts typed dates in the format %E %b, %Y (e.g. 18 Jan, 2021). The data entry field is extremely inflexible when typing dates. For example, typing the full month name will result in the field being rejected and not saved. This could definitely use some more robust date parsing and should allow other date formats to be input. When I try to save a bad date, silently rejecting it is the wrong move because I have to reenter edit mode and re-input the entire date instead of simply correcting the error.
Also, another minor annoyance for a linux user: pre-filling the birthday field with the current date is of limited usefulness and actually hindered me. I was trying to copy dates from another source using the middle mouse button buffer and the web page kept restoring today's date in the field when I would erase it and change back over to the other app to copy the date. It's very unlikely that anyone would be creating a contact entry for someone born on the same day they're creating the entry. It's much more likely that a new contact has a birthday in the past. This date field should not be pre-filled and should instead should use placeholder text so when I first click in the field I can immediately type or paste new data without having to erase pre-filled text that is 99.999999% likely to be wrong.
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Sue Silver commented
Have more than two fields in the contact records for the paid Plus version!!!
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Chiefmonkey commented
Can you add fields for social contact details please e.g.
Twitter, Telegram, Matrix, Whatsapp etc
Fields like Birthday, Anniversary, Member, Language... I've never used
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Anonymous commented
having contacts private and not syncing with google is eneryone's essential need. but as a free protonmail user, I cannot add phone number to proton contact. please add this feature to free account (other fields can remain for premium account)
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Aaron Janse commented
A lot of contacts servers/clients allow for a variety of fields, including custom fields. A lot of contacts servers/clients.
If ProtonMail allows users to add custom fields to their encrypted contacts, they could have all the fields supported by other services plus whatever other fields they desire.
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Anonymous commented
It would be nice to be able to add custom notes next to additional email addresses in the list on the "addresses / users" page. This would help us keep track of what the address is used for.
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Alfonso commented
Thank you for the feature!
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Étienne commented
This is done, it should be closed :-)
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Blane Sheffield commented
A large number of us paying for ProtonMail are trying our best to find replacement solutions for the less secure but feature rich services like Google and Microsoft. I can't replace my contacts from Outlook until I can include that same information in ProtonMail. Email contacts are frequently used to be the "Rolodex" for a person including basic information beyond just email address plus a Notes field for the remainder or notes. Is there a security risk with ProtonMail contacts including other information beyond the email address? I wouldn't think so as secure as our ProtonMail accounts are, thus the reason we pay for the service.
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Anonymous commented
I CANT EVEN GET THIS JUNK TO SAVE AN EMAIL ADRESS..............................
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Anonymous commented
More fields and the ability to group contacts should solve most of the problems
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Rick Veenstra commented
I would also like seperate fields for sur- and first names to allow for different kind of sortings
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Cindy commented
One more thought my son mentioned: if the contacts had more fields, would the info be secure? Maybe my contacts wouldn't want their phone numbers or kids' names exposed online. Is that what would happen? Or would the contacts only be on my devices? If the contacts are secure, then my first comment stands.
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Cindy commented
Yes, I agree. Sometimes I can't remember who the contact is for, so I put some identifying info to remind me. Or maybe I want to call the person I am emailing. Or need to remember where the person lives or works, or the names of their kids so I can refer to them.
If it is too complicated to have many fields, the simplest fix would be to add a 'Notes' field; we could add that information plus anything else we wanted. If it is easy to add multiple fields, then my vote would be to at least have: Two or three Phone Number fields with a label choice for each (mobile, home, and customizable), Address, and Notes. Thank you.
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Alfonso commented
And merge contacts. And several emails per contact. And create groups of contacts too.
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Anonymous commented
I'll reiterate what others are saying regarding how phone and other fields are essential. Also being able to pick up a received email address and add as contact. Otherwise it's great but this is a real limitation.