Everyone who matters, and when you last spoke.

Sample · eleven people, ten of them in rings, on Tuesday, October 20

In the app, tapping a dot opens the person’s page; the card here stands in for it. A long press gives “Move to ring…”, and every move is kept in the person’s ring history. Someone you add lands under NOT IN A RING until you place them, from the map or from Edit → Relationship ring. Dots spread evenly round each ring in name order, starting clear of the ring’s name. With weighting on, the Mac drifts a dot up to 4% of the map’s width either side of its ring; the iPhone’s drift is a fifth of that. Nothing here is saved; Reset goes back to October 20.

Sample · Marcus Chen, close friend

“Due” means the whole days since you were last in touch have reached the reminder, so a weekly reminder is due on day 7. Today waits a little longer: the inner ring’s card comes after the interval has passed, the close ring’s after one and a half times it, and the extended and peripheral rings never bring one. A card that was shown stays quiet for three days (inner) or seven (close). The list’s “overdue — 3 weeks” is the time since you last spoke, not the time past due. Someone with a reminder you have never been in touch with is due at once on the map and the list, while Insights counts them from the day you added them.

Sample · Marcus Chen, weekly reminder, last in touch over coffee on October 17

Last contact becomes the interaction’s “When”, even when that is earlier than the last contact it replaces, so logging last week’s call after today’s coffee moves the reminder back. A follow-up task takes the first 40 characters of the notes, and with no notes there is no task. The exchange is kept only when you say what was exchanged. Gifts come from Gifts & occasions on the person’s page, and the timeline files them on their own. Nothing here is saved.

Insights counts every logged interaction, notes included, and “all time” here is the sample’s year. Needs attention lists the five furthest past due. Exchanges and gifts are kept on the timeline but are not interactions, so they do not reset a reminder or reach these counts.

Sample · Jordan, three gift ideas, two of them starred first; Sarah, none

A birthday set on the person is enough; the card appears without an occasion of its own. An occasion you add under Gifts & occasions, an anniversary say, follows its own two alert days instead, 14 and 3 unless you change them. “turns 32” needs the year of birth; without one the row gives the day alone. A February 29 birthday comes, alert and all, on March 1 in other years.

• Logging a quick "Note" from a person's page also counts as contact and resets their reminder.
• In "Settings", change the "Default interval" for new people, or turn off "Keep in touch reminders" or "Birthday notifications".
• Turn on "Weight map by interaction" in "Settings" so each dot drifts toward "You" the more recently you were in touch, and out past its ring once overdue.
• Archive people you no longer need to track. They stay under "Archived" in the "..." menu and can be unarchived.

• Today

  When someone in your inner ring is past their interval, or someone in your close ring past one and a half times it, Today shows a card with "Log interaction". Birthdays bring a card from 14 days out, and an alert on the morning of the day.

• Tasks

  Tasks created from a person's page, or as an interaction follow-up, are linked to them and listed under "OPEN TASKS".

• Goals

  You can link a goal when adding a person, and goals linked to them appear under "LINKED GOALS" on their page.

• Waiting

  The "Waiting for" row on a person's page lists what you are waiting on from them and lets you add a new item.

• Gratitude

  Gratitude entries that name a person appear under "SHARED MOMENTS" on that person's page.

• Areas

  Each person can carry a life area, which shows in their header and on that area's page.

• Never Eat Alone Keith Ferrazzi Ferrazzi on keeping in touch before you need anything. A keep-in-touch reminder does the remembering.
• How to Know a Person David Brooks Brooks on seeing people well, the context worth keeping beside each name.
• Give and Take Adam Grant Grant on givers, takers and matchers, and why the givers often do best.

• Free printable Keep in Touch A sheet of the people you mean to call.