Suggestions

Longtime proposes; you decide. A calendar feed, an import set to suggest, or the interview can put forward a change, and each one waits as a suggestion until you say what to do with it. Nothing in your Space changes in the meantime. (An import you choose to apply fills in what you are missing straight away; only its conflicts and uncertain matches come here.)

Open the inbox from the tray icon at the top of every page — its badge counts what is waiting — or from the link in the dashboard's Suggestions panel.

Reading a card

Each suggestion is a card about one record. Along the top:

• what it is about — a person, a connection or an occasion;
• what kind of suggestion it is: "New" for something that does not exist yet, "Note" for a note to add, "Duplicate" for two records that look like the same thing, and no tag for a change to a record you already have;
• "Repeats", when it is one occurrence of a repeating calendar event.

Under the title, a line says where it came from — "From a calendar feed", "From an import", or, for something from the interview, the connection or person it was about — and when. Below that, a table lists exactly what would change.

What you can do with one

The main button says what accepting means for that card:

• adding creates the new record;
• accepting makes the change;
• adding the note adds the proposed note — you can edit the text first;
• on a "Duplicate" card, reviewing the merge opens the record's page with the merge dialog ready.

The other choices:

• Refining it, on a new or changed person or connection (not a Note or a Duplicate), opens the interview with the suggestion loaded, so you can correct it in your own words before accepting.
• Making it an occasion, or a connection, switches a proposal between the two, for a calendar event Longtime read the wrong way. A weekend away that came in as one long connection is really an occasion. The switch sticks the next time the calendar syncs.
• Snoozing puts it away for a week. Snoozed cards sit in their own section and come back on their own.
• Dismissing says no.

When a source disagrees with you

An import never overwrites what you have. When a file says something different from what is already in your Space — another birthday, a different spelling — Longtime keeps yours and shows the difference as a suggestion. Accepting takes the file's value; dismissing keeps your own.

When a calendar takes something back

If an event you already accepted is canceled in the calendar, Longtime does not delete anything on its own. It asks instead, with a card whose change reads "Canceled":

• "The calendar took this meeting back. Accepting removes the connection."
• "The calendar took this hold back. Accepting removes the occasion; the connections in it stay."

Dismiss the card to keep it. The same question shows as a banner on the record's own page, offering to remove the connection (or the occasion), snooze the question, or keep it. If you delete or convert the record yourself first, the question closes by itself.

If the event comes back — un-canceled in the calendar — the question is withdrawn.

Repeating events

Each occurrence of a repeating meeting is its own suggestion, because each one is its own time together. Dismissing one asks whether you mean just this event or every event in the series.

Duplicates

When a suggested new connection looks like one you have already logged, its card says it may already be logged, and offers to review the merge or to mark it as not a duplicate. Merging folds the suggestion into the existing record, and you choose which value to keep wherever the two differ. Marking it as not a duplicate tells Longtime not to suggest that merge again.

The same check runs on people and connections you already have. When two look like the same thing, a banner on the record's page offers to review the merge. See People and Connections.

Details

While you are refining a suggestion, if the calendar or file it came from changes, Longtime leaves your card alone.

For a repeating series, dismissing just this event dismisses only that one. Dismissing every event in the series dismisses every occurrence still waiting, and stops suggesting that meeting from any calendar in this Space. Occurrences you already accepted are kept.