Pools

A Pool is a saved search on People. It does not hold a list of names; it holds the search, so it always contains whoever that search would find today. Add someone to your Family circle and they are in a Pool that searches for Family from then on, without you touching the Pool.

Pools are for the groups you come back to: everyone you send a holiday card to, the neighbors for the street party, the people on Mom's side for the reunion.

Saving a Pool

1. On People, search or filter until the list shows who you mean — "everyone in Family or Close friends".
2. A bar under the filters offers to save it as a Pool. (If the search already matches one of your Pools, the bar says so instead.)
3. Give it a name, such as "Holiday cards", and save it.

Pool names are unique within a Space.

Using a Pool

The Pools menu beside the People search lists your Pools. Pick one to load its search. Managing your Pools from the same menu opens the list of all of them, each with how many people it holds right now.

Choose a Pool in that list to open its page, which shows who is in it, and lets you export it, open it in People, rename it or delete it.

Changing a Pool's search

A Pool's search is changed on People, so you can see what the change does before you keep it.

Open the Pool in People and adjust the filters. The bar tells you what updating would do — "Updating adds 3 people, removes 1 person" — and offers:

• Update the Pool — keep the new search. You can undo it straight after.
• Save it as a new Pool — keep both.
• Detach — stop editing the Pool and keep searching; the Pool is left as it was.

If you try to leave with an unsaved change, Longtime asks whether to update the Pool first.

To put a new search into a Pool you already have, search People without opening the Pool, then choose to replace a Pool's search and pick which one. That Pool now uses the search on screen.

Exporting a Pool

Exporting the Pool — from its page, or from the Pool bar — starts a file export of just those people. Choose vCard, CSV or JSON, and the file holds whoever is in the Pool when it is built. See Demand Bridges.

If a circle a Pool searches by is deleted, the Pool says so — "This search no longer uses it, so it may find different people than you expect" — with a link to check the search in People.