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2323# Rationale
2424When I've been to in-person social events like Assembly or other meetups, I was excited to meet new people, but frustrated that I couldn't easily keep track of everyone I met. While I could add other users by `@p` in `%pals`, the tagging system doesn't lend itself to storing contact info in a structured way, like names, emails, Twitter handles, etc. Also, even at Urbit events, many people I met didn't have planets yet! I could add them into my phone's contacts or as a Web 2 social contact, but now my contacts are split between multiple disconnected sources.
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2526Urbit needs more robust way of connecting people and representing who they are. In short, I should be able to broadcast who I am with a profile, and I should be able to keep an organized list of contacts with my friends' profiles.
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2628While `%pals` is a great tool for defining a list of friends, its tagging feature was not meant to represent structured contact data. The `%pals` frontend states
2729> Applications could make use of tags for grouping content, but should not change their core behavior based on the presence or absence of specific tags.
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2831A dedicated contacts app needs to be able to store contact info in a way that other apps can programmatically access specific info about a contact. For example, if I knew somebody in real life, I could enter their real name into my contacts app, and Groups could display their real name instead of their @p in chats.
2932# Overview
3033`%whom` would be an app that lets me manage a list of contacts.
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6669 - The frontend shows which contacts are pals
6770 - Contacts can be filtered by %pals tags
6871 - Users can click a button to send a contact a pal request
69− - Users can restrict visibility on their profile, so only pals can see certain fields
72+ - Users can restrict visibility on their profile, so only pals can see certain fields