It’s about [expletive] time
Gmail finally decided that adding Contact Groups to their contact management was an idea worth implementing.
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As a web developer, I realize that sometimes this stuff takes a while, but how long has Gmail been around? It took them that long to decide that having groups was a good idea and then make it happen? Is it me or does that not exactly sound like an agile company? This seems like something that could have been done two weeks by the guys they have at Google (because I know they’re a lot smarter than me). That amounts to about 8 hours a week for 14 weeks… Maybe that 20% time was taking up too much of the developers time.
Also, they didn’t even make an announcment or anything saying “You can making f’n groups now!”
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Here’s LifeHacker’s instructions on how to make a contact group in Gmail:
Gmail has been piling on a lot of new features lately, like the addition of contact groups. To set up a contact group:
1. Log in to your Gmail account.
2. Click Contacts along the left side of any Gmail page.
3. Open the Groups tab, and click Create Group.
4. Enter your contact group’s name in the Group name: field.
5. Type the contacts you’d like to include in the Group in the Add contacts: field. (Gmail’s auto-complete feature will suggest addresses from your Contacts list as you type.)
6. Click Create Group.
