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Google’s web based email system always strive to add more features and functions to make it more user friendly and compatible. Recently added Starring feature that helps its users to sort out messages according to their priority by using icons, is one of the latest example. In extension to this, Gmail is rolling out an additional contact feature that will allow users to operate their address book in a manageable manner.

It is true that Gmail’s auto-updated contacts makes our address book messy and crappy. Though it has an advantage of adding every contact that you have ever mailed in your address book making it auto-complete but at a times, is highly problematic as majority of unimportant number of contacts are automatically added into an address book. Therefore, Gmail is planning to add a feature that will make your address book clean and fresh and will provide you with an uncluttered contact list. The functionality that is expected to be rolled out next week will separate contacts in to two groups: “My Contacts” and ”Suggested Contacts”.

The “My Contacts” category will include contacts that you will deliberately add in your address book through a manual entry, import or sync. It will also those contacts, that you have mailed more than five times. This will really add functionality as major of our important contacts are the one, we mailed frequently.

While ”Suggested Contacts” will contain all auto-created contacts. Number of Suggested contacts that you would be mailing frequently will be added to the “My Contacts” category automatically. Though, users can disable “usage- based addition of contacts” by checking an appropriate option and can avoid an automatic addition of frequently mailed contacts.

The new feature will be a boon to users who are fed up of unwanted addition of email addresses in their address book.