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Show HN: Calltags, an Android dialer for people without contact lists (github.com)

1 points by andunie ↗ HN
The idea is that you get a call history and you can label calls and later search or browse them to find numbers.

Contact lists are bloated and made for a different time. These days just some plain labels on numbers should be enough.

This approach doesn't discriminate between contacts that are worth adding to a canonical "list of contacts" and people or institutions that have called you only once: everybody can get a label the same way.

I've wanted an app like this to exist for a long time, but never found it, so now I can finally be happy with my sporadic use of the phone dialer again.

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jqpabc123
These days just some plain labels on numbers should be enough.

My contact list offers one indispensible feature --- it supports call filtering.

For years I have run my Android phone continuously in "Do Not Disturb" mode. This mode can be easily configured so you must be on my list in order to make my phone ring.

I find that life is better and more pleasant this way.

Can Calltags do this?

andunie
It doesn't do that currently, it only has a manual per-number blocking feature.

But it is a good idea, and I think it can be done nicely with some more special tags and rules for types of tags. I'm not sure, but I'll work on it. Thank you for the idea.