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Instant Message Organization

Started by kevnull · 6 months ago

Instant messaging has become pretty common place now. As more people I know get accounts, managing the number of contacts starts to get a bit daunting. Trillian, which I mentioned earlier, helps maintain some sanity with their meta-contacts and merging of the four major IM protocols. Still, ... Continue reading »

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Audiophile
4 years ago

I use a hybrid of function/geography. For the most part it's function, but I occasionally do things such as look for someone to go eat with. The "!Austin 1" and "!Austin 2" groups work well for that. wrt ordering, I always prefix the group names with a 2 digit code. That seems to be the best protocol/client-independent way of sorting my groups. I use Miranda, but I occasionally fall back on the "official" clients.

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Joshua Kaufman
4 years ago

I have two groups. One is "Frequent," the other is "Infrequent." So my system is almost the same as yours except I use words that make sense. ;) However, I guess when you have more than two groups, it becomes more difficult to use semantic labels. "More Infrequent" seems kind of long.

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mfk
4 years ago

When I was on IM, I used (funny enough) an almost identical scheme, just labelled: Primary, Secondary, Tertiary. I think I was inspired by computer architecture.

For frequency based methods, I think the optimal number of tiers depends heavily on the structure of your communication space (for lack of a better term). At the time, if I grouped the contacts by frequency, it followed an exponential distribution -- as I suspect most people's communication space would. From this I could assign two thresholds, which partitioned by contact's list accordingly.

I remember briefly considering KC's additional subcategorizations, but felt it took away from the mathematical purity of the original scheme. :)

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