Google Gmail Gets a New Contact Manager

Today, Google announced some new improvements to the contacts manager located in its Gmail web-based email client. Google is confident that the improvements will fix the Gmail contacts manager’s damaged reputation and prompt users to give it another chance. Contacts now works more like the rest of Gmail, so if you know how to use Gmail, now you should automatically feel comfortable in Contacts too. And you’ll see a bunch of the features you’ve requested, including:

* Keyboard shortcuts (go to Contacts and hit “?” for the full list) or Read here
* Sort by last name (look under “More actions”)
* Custom labels for phone numbers and other fields
* The ability to undo changes you’ve just made
* Automatic saving
* Structured name fields, so you can adjust titles, suffixes, and other name components
* A bigger, more prominent notes field