Gmail-Calendar Migration Tip of the Day #16

Your contacts (think Address Book) lives in the Waffle. As you continue to use Gmail, your contact list will expand as people are automatically added to your contacts as you email them. 

But also within Contacts, you can create your own groups by assigning labels to your contacts.  It's worth the time to create labels within contacts for people who you regularly email, send calendar invites, or share Google Drive files with.  Google released a major redesign of contacts last week so those familiar with contacts will notice a refreshed look.  Once desired contacts are labeled, these labels function similar to groups and are only accessible and visible to you.

Here are some steps to get started with contacts.

1. Visit contacts.google.com (Also accessible via the waffle and the Contacts icon)
2. Under Labels at the bottom of any existing labels choose + Create Label
3. Name your Label > Save
4. Go to your Contacts > Select the Contacts you wish to add to the Label > Manage Label > Choose Label > Apply
5. Now when you are in Gmail, Calendar, or Drive, you can type the Label Name and it will auto-populate with a list of names.

If there are people you wish to add to a label who are not yet in your Contacts, you can use the search feature to find them or locate them in the Directory.

Visit the GSuite Learning Center to learn more about Contacts.  Note: The redesign is referred to as the In Contacts preview within the GSuite Learning Center Materials.