ACRM Duplicates

Address books collect doubles: the same person imported twice, saved under two spellings, or typed in and then imported again. The Duplicates page, in the menu at the bottom of the front page, is the one place to clean them up.

Same name #

Contacts sharing a name are shown as groups, each member as a card with photo, jobs, location, birthday, contact details, tags and project count, so you can see whether it is one person twice or two people sharing a name. Ticked groups merge with one button; untick a group that is genuinely two different people.

Same details, different name #

Every night the ACRM looks for pairs sharing an email address, a phone number or an IMDb link under different names, usually the same person saved as "Maria K" and "Maria Karagianni". Gmail addresses are compared the way Gmail treats them, so dots and +endings do not hide a match. The pairs appear as possible merges: choose "Merge these" or "Not the same person", and a dismissed pair never returns.

What merging does #

Merging is safe by design. The oldest record survives, and everything from the other moves across: emails, phones, tags, links, projects, events and relationships combine, empty fields fill, and nothing you wrote is overwritten. Encrypted notes move across only when the surviving record has none.

Bulk actions from search #

Any search result can be worked in bulk: tick people (or select all) and then tag them, link them to a project, merge them into one, export them, or delete them. The same bar appears when browsing a tag.

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