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Contacts

Store your family's important contacts in one place — doctors, teachers, contractors, coaches, emergency contacts, and more. Call or email anyone in one tap.

Adding a contact

Open Contacts from the sidebar and tap Add. Fill in the contact's name and choose a type:

  • Doctor — family physicians, specialists, dentists.
  • Teacher — school and tutoring contacts.
  • Contractor — tradespeople and home service providers.
  • Coach — sports and activity coaches.
  • Babysitter — childcare contacts.
  • Family — extended family members.
  • Friend — personal friends.
  • Vendor — suppliers and service providers.
  • Fire, Police, Ambulance, and Other Emergency — emergency services and anyone else to call in an urgent situation.
  • Other — anything that doesn't fit another type.

Each type has its own icon in the contact list so you can spot the right person quickly.

Phone numbers, emails, and address

A contact can have as many phone numbers and email addresses as you need. Tap Add phone or Add email to add another, and give each one a label — Mobile, Work, Home, Personal, or Other.

You can also store a full address (street, city, province/state, postal code, and country), a relationship or role description, and notes. Upload a photo to make the contact easy to recognise at a glance.

On the contact detail page, tap any phone number to call it, any email to write to it, or the address to open it in Google Maps.

Emergency contacts

Toggle Emergency contact on any contact to mark it as an emergency contact. Choosing the Fire, Police, Ambulance, or Other Emergency type turns this on automatically. Emergency contacts appear in a dedicated section on the Dashboard so they are always visible at a glance — no need to search.

Any contact type can be marked as an emergency contact. An emergency contact's detail page shows a prominent red Call button for their first phone number, and you can tap the number in the dashboard's emergency section to call directly from the app.

Sharing a contact

Open a contact and tap the download icon to export it as a vCard (.vcf) file. The file includes every phone number, email, the address, relationship, and notes, and can be opened by your phone's address book or any email or contacts app.

Contractor specialties

When adding or editing a contractor, enter their specialties as a comma-separated list (for example: plumbing, HVAC, electrical). Specialties appear as tags on the contact detail page so you can quickly identify the right person for a job.

Searching and filtering

Type in the search box at the top of the Contacts page to filter by name. Tap Types in the filter bar to choose one or more contact types; the selected types appear as chips in the bar — tap a chip's × to remove it. Filters and search can be combined.

Importing contacts from your phone

On supported Android browsers, tap the Import button to select contacts directly from your device's address book. Choose one or more contacts, assign each a type, and tap Import contacts to add them all at once.

This feature uses the browser's Contact Picker API and is not available on iOS or desktop browsers.

Editing and deleting a contact

Open a contact and tap Edit to update any field. To delete a contact, open it and tap Delete, then confirm. Deletion is permanent and cannot be undone.