Your contacts

Open Kards, pick a card, and switch to the Contacts tab: everyone who sent their details through that card is filed there, along with anyone who booked through it, anyone you typed in or sent your Kard to with "Send to a number" (Share your card), and paper cards you scanned in the app. The line under "Contacts" counts them, and nudges: "Reach out while they still remember you."

What each entry holds

A contact keeps whatever the person sent — name, mobile number, email, message — and the moment it arrived, plus their job title, company and your own note when there are any. The list runs newest first, twenty-five to a page. Each row carries one-tap "Text", "WhatsApp", "Call" and "Email" buttons, as far as there's a number or an address, "View card" when they shared their own card back, and a trash icon. Tap a name to open "Contact details", with room for your note, a reminder and the event you met at (Notes and follow-ups).

"Add a person", above the list, types someone in, up to 500 in an hour. "Scan cards" reads several paper cards from one photo on a paid plan; on the free plan it says so, and points you to the eKard app, which reads paper cards on your phone for free.

Say hello on WhatsApp

"WhatsApp" beside a contact opens the chat with a hello already written: you still press send. It greets them by first name, names the event you met them at, and hands over your Kard's link: "Hi Ravi! Good to meet you at Auto Expo. Here's my card, with all my details: …". For someone you didn't meet at an event, the sentence with the event is left out. Their "Contact details" show the hello as it will read, under "Call", "Text" and "WhatsApp" (a text message opens with the same words), with "Change your hello". An event's page, the morning email of people to follow up, the event recaps and the email about a new contact ("Say hello to Ravi") open WhatsApp the same way.

You write your hello once, for everyone, on your Profile (Your account); until then, a default stands in, in your country's language where it has one, else English. While your hello carries your link, a tap on WhatsApp beside a contact or on an event's page counts as sending your Kard: it ticks "Send it in a chat" on Get your Kard seen.

Reached out

Each tap on "Call", "Text", "WhatsApp" or "Email" beside a contact, in this list, on their sheet or on an event's page, leaves a dated line on them, and so does "Done" on their reminder. The row shows the latest, such as "Opened WhatsApp · Fri 23 Oct"; their sheet lists the last 5 under "Reached out", newest first, each with its time and, when it wasn't you, who. eKard sees the tap, not whether the call or the message went. Beside "All" and "To follow up", "Not reached yet" lists everyone with no such line, with its count: after a fair, the people still waiting to hear from you.

Fix an email or a number

A visitor in a hurry types "ravi@gmial.com". When an email looks mistyped, their sheet says so under it, "looks like a typo for gmail.com", and "Fix" opens the sheet's "Edit" with the likely address already in "Email": check it and press "Save". "Edit" ("Add a note" before there's anything to edit) also lets you correct "Number" by hand. Nothing is sent to the person: from then on, "Email", "Call", "Text" and "WhatsApp" use what you saved, and the sheet says "Nothing was sent to Ravi."

Search, sort, export

The search box — "Search name, phone or note" — looks at names, emails, phone numbers (any spacing), companies, job titles, addresses from scanned cards, your notes, their messages and the answers your form collects. The select beside it sorts: "Newest first", "Oldest first", "Name A–Z" or "Name Z–A". Above the list, "All", "To follow up" and "Not reached yet" switch between everyone, the people you've set a reminder for, and the people nobody has reached.

"Export CSV" downloads a spreadsheet of every matching contact, not only the page on screen: name, email, phone number, message, your note, how and when they arrived, their reminder's day, how they found your Kard, the event they came through, and the link to their own card when they shared it back, plus what a paper card scanned in the app added and their answers to your questions. A column nobody filled is left out, but for name, email, phone and how and when they came. It opens in Excel and other spreadsheets with every language's letters intact.

Several at once

Tick the box beside each person, or the one above the list for the whole page ("Select all 25 on this page"). When the list runs to more pages, a line then offers every page of it, as searched and filtered: "Select all 340 contacts". A bar at the foot says how many are selected, with "Clear", and offers "Put in an event", "Remind me", "Save to my phone", "CSV" and "Delete".

"Put in an event", "Remind me" and "Delete" first open a page that names who's picked and says what each choice changes ("11 go in Auto Expo. 1 is there already."). Nothing changes until you press its button. The list then says what happened, counting only the ones that changed ("Put 11 contacts in Auto Expo; 1 was already in it."). After an event or a reminder, "Undo" puts each person back as they were, for an hour. Deleting has no undo: its page offers their CSV and contact file first.

Save them all to your phone

"Save to my phone", beside "Export CSV", puts the list in one contact file (a .vcf) that Google Contacts or an iPhone takes in at once: each person with their number, email, company and job title, what they wrote and your note, as on the card attached to their email.

1. To save only some, tick them and press "Save to my phone" in the bar at the foot, or search, open an event or choose "To follow up" first: the file holds the list on screen, every page of it.
2. Press "Save to my phone". Its panel says how many contacts the file holds; press "Download the contact file (.vcf)".
3. On an iPhone, in Safari, open the file from Safari's Downloads or the Files app and tap "Add All" with the number of contacts. On Android, open it from the notification or the Files app, then choose Contacts and the Google account to keep them in: they reach every phone signed in to it. On a computer, at contacts.google.com, choose Import and pick the file.

Saving the same people twice makes copies, so the next time, save only the people you haven't yet: search for them, or open the event you met them at.

The email that rides along

Every contact who sends their details through the card also emails you, with the person attached as a vCard, and replying reaches them when they left an email. The "Notifications" switch in Settings turns these emails off for the card; contacts keep collecting here regardless. Emails from your card covers the full set.

Someone sending you things you don't want? Block them from their contact details: Block someone.

From a deleted Kard

Deleting a Kard keeps its contacts. Contacts, in the menu, then lists your Kards and, under them, "From a deleted Kard" ("Kept after their Kard was deleted"), with how many; a team Kard's are kept for the team's admins. Each person there still says which Kard they came through, "From the deleted Kard Spring Trade Fair · Sent their details from your Kard", and keeps their note and reminder, with "WhatsApp", "Call", "Email" and "Delete". Its "Export CSV" has a "Kard" column with that name on every row, and the morning email of people to follow up says "from the deleted Kard Spring Trade Fair". In the monthly letter, the reminders due among them come under "Kept after Spring Trade Fair was deleted" when they all came through that one Kard. Someone kept from a Kard deleted before eKard kept a Kard's name reads "From a deleted Kard" alone.

On a team card

Contacts left on a team's card reach the people who run it: every admin gets the email, and the card's wallet is open to them all. More in the course on teams on eKard.

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