My Contacts: your private address book
Every person you save, gathered in one private page. Group them (recruiter, client, dentist, family), search and filter, favorite, edit, and reach out on their own channels.
4 min read · Updated 7/6/2026
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People are the most valuable things you save. A great recruiter, your tax accountant, that YouTuber who actually replies — the trouble is they scatter across your library. My Contacts gathers every person you've saved into one private address book you can sort, search, and act on.
What it is
My Contacts (in the sidebar, or at /contacts) is a dedicated view of every save I filed as a contact. Contacts are private by default — only you see them until you publish a contact Bommel.
A contact is created whenever you save a person: paste a LinkedIn profile, a recruiter's page, a company team page, or even a creator's website in the chat, and I pull out what I can — name, job title, company, email, phone, location.
Tip: You can build a contact from almost anything. Find a great video, note the creator, and if their site lists an email or phone, save that page — now you have a real contact from a YouTube link.
Groups: find the right person fast
Every contact can be filed under one group so a growing list stays manageable:
- 🧑💼 Recruiter · 🤝 Client · 👔 Colleague
- 🏢 Business / Service (vendors, providers) · 🩺 Healthcare · 📊 Finance / Legal
- 🎨 Creator · 😊 Friend · 👪 Family · 🗂️ Other
Set a group from the little dropdown on any contact card or table row. Then use the Group filter to see just your recruiters, or just your service providers — so "who's my tax accountant again?" is one click, not a scroll.
Search & filter
- Search box — finds contacts by name, company, role, or notes. It's the same smart search as your library: it understands meaning, not just exact words, so "dentist" can surface "oral surgeon."
- Group filter — narrow to one group.
- Favorites — star your most important people and flip the Favorites filter to see only them.
- Table or Cards — switch layouts with the toggle; both page ten at a time.
Managing a contact
- Open a contact (the card title or the Open button) to edit everything on its detail page — name, job title, company, email, phone, location, notes, and tags.
- Reach out straight from the card: tap the email or phone icon to start a message or call, or the ↗ icon to open their page.
- Favorite with the star, re-group with the dropdown, and delete with the trash icon (you'll be asked to confirm).
Two tabs: Saved contacts and Bommel
The Contacts page has two tabs, and they hold different things:
- Saved contacts — the private address book above: people you clipped from the web. They don't need a Bommel account, and only you see them.
- [Bommel](/help/bommel-connections) — real Bommel Bot members you've connected with. You tap Connect on their
@handlepage, they accept, and you both show up here. It's opt-in and two-way — nobody is added without saying yes.
A little red dot on the Bommel tab means someone asked to connect and is waiting for your answer.
Reaching people
There's no messaging inside Bommel Bot yet — and that's on purpose. When someone publishes their email, phone, or channels on their public profile, you contact them on their own turf: email, WhatsApp, LinkedIn, wherever they chose. My Contacts is your private rolodex for keeping all of that straight.
(On-platform 1:1 messaging between connections is the next step we're building — [connections](/help/bommel-connections) are the foundation it builds on.)
Contacts vs. Connections vs. Bommel
Three related ideas, easy to mix up:
- Saved contacts = your private list of people you clipped.
- [Bommel connections](/help/bommel-connections) = a two-way link with another member (you both said yes).
- [Connections](/help/connecting-bookmarks) = links between any saves (a person ↔ the job they posted ↔ your research). Use these to tie a contact to the things around them.