People

Everyone you keep track of is a person — and so are you. Your own record is in your Space — your private collection of people in Longtime — from the start, marked "YOU!", because you are at every connection you log.

The People list

People in the menu — it appears once you have added your first person and logged your first connection — shows everyone in the Space as cards or a list. Each card has their name, age, circles, their birthday when one is coming, and a line about where they stand:

• "No cadence" — you have not set a cadence, how often you would like to be in touch.
• "Reconnect now" — their cadence comes due within a week, or already has, and nothing is booked.
• "Nothing booked · due {when}" — due later than that, and nothing planned.
• "Booked · {when}" — for someone with a cadence, a connection with them is on the calendar.

The counter at the top shows how many people you have out of the Space's 300. To find someone, use the search box or a quick filter — see Searching.

There is no button to add a person. People come in through the interview — start one with the share button at the top of any page (on a narrow screen, the add button) and tell it about them — or in bulk from a file.

A person's page

At the top: the name you use for them, then their full name, with their nickname and any former last name in parentheses, their age, their circles, any Pools they are in, and the time where they are.

The main button asks what is new with them and opens the interview about them — the quickest way to update anything.

Where you stand

A panel near the top says how things are between you (it is not on your own page, or for someone who has died):

• "No cadence set" — with a button to add one.
• "Time to reconnect" — due within a week or overdue; shows when you last connected and how often you aim to.
• "Nothing booked" — when they are next due, and that nothing is planned.
• "Booked" — your last connection and the next one coming up.

Two buttons sit with it — one to add or update a cadence, one to log a connection — and each opens the interview.

History

A timeline of what is between you, newest first: everything planned, anything waiting to be confirmed, your five most recent confirmed connections, and all your notes, with the occasions — trips, weekends — drawn as a box around the connections that were part of them. A line marks where the future ends and the past begins.

At the end, a link to see all your connections with them opens every one, in Connections.

To add a note, type it in the note box and save it (or press Shift+Enter — in the note box, Shift+Enter saves). The × on one of your notes deletes it straight away.

Contact details

Their email addresses, phone numbers and addresses each have a list, with a pencil to edit each one and a way to add another — or a prompt to add the first when there is none yet. Each one can carry a label — Home, Work, Cell — and you can mark one as preferred, so the right one is easy to spot when there are several.

Removing a detail, inside its edit dialog, takes it off them immediately; anyone else who shares that address, email or number keeps it.

Editing their details

The easiest way to change most things about someone is to tell the interview — "Sam goes by Sammy now", "her birthday is March 3rd". It updates their names, birthday, date of death, cadence and circles, and adds email addresses, phone numbers and addresses. Removing a saved contact detail is done on their page.

If you know exactly what you want to change and would rather type it in yourself, edit their details from the ⋮ menu instead. The form also holds two things the interview does not change: their timezone, and About — free text for anything you want to keep with them. About shows only in this form, not on their page. Someone's timezone sets the local time shown on their page; until you set it, they follow the Space's. See Timezones.

A former last name — a maiden name, say — is matched by search, the interview and imports, so someone stays findable after their surname changes instead of turning into a second record. Tell the interview ("her maiden name was Ortiz") or set it in the form.

Duplicates

When two records look like the same person, a banner appears on the one Longtime would keep — your own record, or else the older one; the other record's page shows nothing. The same pair also arrives as a Duplicate card in Suggestions. Reviewing the merge opens a dialog where, for anything that differs, you choose which value to keep. Their contact details, circles, history and notes come across, and the duplicate is removed. Snoozing asks again later; dismissing says they are different people, for good.

Sharing someone's details

To send someone a person's address or phone number without pasting it into a message, create a Flash Bridge from the person's page — see Flash Bridges: a short-lived link showing only the details you pick.

Deleting a person

Deleting them from the ⋮ menu permanently deletes their record. Connections they were on stay, with everyone else still on them — including you. There is no undo. Your own record, marked "YOU!", cannot be deleted.

Details

Someone with nothing booked joins the dashboard's Reconnect panel the day before they are due.

A preferred detail is marked "The one they actually use", or for an address, "Where they actually are".

When other people share an address, an email address or a phone number with this person, they appear at the bottom of their page, under Related, tagged with what they share — a quick way to spot a household.