Finding people & Circles

The directory is how you find members and Circles: by topic, and by place.

Browsing

• See members and Circles, and open anyone's profile to learn a bit about them.
• Each profile shows who someone is in the community; from there you can send a friend request.

Finding people near you

• The Community directory can put people nearby first, each one shown with a soft area label like "Nearby" or "Your area," never a distance or a pin.
• Start typing a city or town and it autocompletes, then shows Circles near that place. You can also search around your own location.
• You control all of this under Settings → Connections & Location: who can find you, how precise it is, and your own findability radius (see Your settings).

My Contacts

My Contacts is your own private address book: people you have met and logged, scanned from a card or a poster, imported from Google, or added by hand. Only you can see them.

• Import from Google brings your Google contacts in with one tap. Choose Import from Google, pick your Google account, and the people saved there land in My Contacts. Anyone already in your book is skipped, so it is safe to run more than once. Frequency only reads your contacts, never your email, and stores nothing from Google beyond the contacts you bring over.
• When someone in your contacts turns out to be a member too, Frequency spots it (by a matching email or phone) and shows a merge prompt at the top of My Contacts.
• Merge links the two. Their live member profile fills in the card, and the details you logged plus your notes stay exactly as you wrote them. A merged contact gets an On Frequency tag.
• The private details you logged also show up on that member's profile, in a card only you can see. Nobody else knows you kept a contact for them.
• If it is not the same person, Dismiss the prompt and it stays quiet.
• Open a contact to see a Timeline of what you've logged with them, newest first, so your history with someone is in one place.
• Before you reach out, use Prep brief and Vera writes a short read from what you've saved: who they are, your history, and one way to start. Vera never sends anything for you.

A note on privacy

Frequency never shares anyone's exact location. You only ever see a member as a fuzzed area (about a mile across) or their city, never precise coordinates or a pin on a map, and the same is true of how you appear to others. You decide your own visibility, and Ghost mode hides you from proximity entirely whenever you want. So you can find who's nearby without anyone being pinpointed.