Relationship guides 02 · 9 min
Understand the important people in your relationships
Someone you contact often, someone who shaped your life and someone relevant to a current goal may be different people.
Who this guide is for: People who want several reasons, not one score, for reviewing relationships.
1. Choose what matters to you
Choose a purpose before comparing people: reconnecting, mutual support or a specific introduction. A useful contact for one goal is not necessarily the most important person in your life.
2. Read the evidence separately
Review recency, continuity, reciprocity, shared context and your own marks separately. Check the source and date. Frequent records can reflect work routines or a source with more data, rather than trust.
3. Correct what the records miss
Use importance marks, corrections and hiding to add your judgment. Relationships may include care or experience that never appears in a calendar. You can leave a suggestion unanswered; you do not owe the service a reason.
4. Do not treat a score as a verdict
Relationship scores compare the current records. They do not measure a person's worth, feelings, actual closeness or the probability of a successful introduction.
Terms explained
- Metadata
- details such as source, time and count, rather than a message body.
- Pseudonymous key
- a value used instead of a name; it remains linked to an account.
- Encryption
- storing data in a form that needs a key to read; it does not prevent every risk on the same device.
- JSON
- an export format that preserves named fields and structure.
- CSV / TSV
- tables whose columns are separated by commas or tabs.
- vCard / VCF
- a contact-card file format.
- PWA
- a web app that supported browsers can add to the home screen.
- Relative score
- a comparison within current records, not a person's worth or success probability.