Understanding Contact Types in SnapCard: Organize Your Relationships Like a Pro

Every relationship in your life has a place. Some people are part of your daily world, others you meet occasionally, and some are professional connections you want to nurture over time. SnapCard’s Contact Type construct is designed to help you organize your network intuitively, giving you control over your connections and ensuring you never lose context.

Imagine opening SnapCard after a conference or a long trip—you have a handful of new contacts, old friends, family updates, and professional connections all in one place. How do you prioritize, remember, and act? That’s where Contact Types come in.

The SnapCard Contact Type Framework

We built SnapCard’s Contact Type system to match how humans naturally categorize relationships. It’s inspired by real social behavior — people think in layers, not lists—and allows you to organize your contacts without overthinking.

Here’s how we break it down:

• Family
  Your closest family members, the people you see and speak with regularly. These relationships are timeless and require little prompting to maintain.
• Extended Family
  Relatives who are important, but you may not interact with every week. SnapCard helps you remember context, birthdays, and key moments.
• Close Friends
  Friends who are part of your inner circle. These are people you want to keep in regular contact with, and SnapCard helps you remember opportunities to connect.
• Friends
  Friends you enjoy connecting with but don’t see every day. SnapCard ensures no one falls through the cracks, even during busy weeks.
• Active Network
  People you engage with professionally or socially on a recurring basis—clients, collaborators, and mentors. SnapCard tracks interactions, helping you maintain meaningful relationships without extra effort.
• Extended Network
  Contacts you know, but interact with infrequently. SnapCard keeps them in view and suggests nudges to reconnect when timing is right.
• Reach Network
  Weaker ties—people you’ve met once or occasionally interact with online. SnapCard preserves context so you can activate these connections when opportunities arise.
• Professional
  Colleagues, clients, or partners who are primarily work-focused. SnapCard allows you to manage these relationships separately from personal connections while keeping all the context intact.
• Other Network
  A flexible bucket for relationships that don’t fit neatly into the above categories. This ensures SnapCard works for every connection you care about.

Why Contact Types Matter

Categorizing your contacts isn’t just about organization - it’s about intelligence and action. SnapCard uses Contact Type to:

• Prioritize reminders for relationships that matter most
• Tailor “keep in touch” suggestions based on the type of connection
• Surface contextual nudges for reconnecting with people when timing matters
• Maintain clarity across personal, professional, and casual contacts

By thinking in layers rather than a flat list, SnapCard mirrors how your brain naturally organizes people. It turns what used to feel like a messy pile of business cards, emails, and social connections into a clear, actionable network.

How This Helps You

Whether you’re a busy professional, a freelancer, or someone who just wants to stay connected, Contact Types let you:

• Keep your network alive without manual tracking
• See at a glance where each relationship sits in your life
• Focus energy on connections that create the most value
• Maintain context for meetings, calls, and follow-ups

SnapCard’s Contact Types are the foundation of your personal CRM. They help you remember, organize, and act on your relationships the way you naturally think about them.

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Pro Tip: Make Contact Types Flexible

Contact Types in SnapCard are implemented through tags. This means:

• You can tag a contact as belonging to a specific Contact Type.
• You can reclassify a contact as many times as you like.
• The types we’ve provided are recommendations — you can create and use your own labels when assigning a contact to a Contact Type.

This makes the system flexible and adaptable to your personal way of thinking about relationships.

Another powerful tool...

Contact Category: We've also left another field called Contact Category, so you can bucket the contact into whatever category feels right for you. Some examples we've seen our power users use.... vendor, mentor, personal, referral source, potential client. Why? We humans mentally categorize people already. SnapCard should reflect how you think of your relationships.