# Why use Contacts in Curiosity

Curiosity organises contacts from your emails and messengers into contacts: People and Organisations. That lets you view all files and communications with someone in one place.

| 💡 Check out our blog post about contacts to learn how contacts can help you find things quickly.

You can search for a contact to see resuts linked to them:

  • Files
  • Emails
  • Chat messages
  • Events

People and Organizations are linked via the email domain (e.g. xxx@acme-corp.eu). That means you can search for an Organization and then look for People there.


# Where do Contacts come from in Curiosity

Contacts in Curiosity come from sources you connect, specifically:

  • Email
  • Calendar
  • Chat messengers (e.g. Slack)
  • CRMs (e.g. Salesforce)

# How to use Contacts in Curiosity

To use Contacts:

  1. In the left bar, click on the arrow > next to Contacts-
  2. Click on Organizations to see and search organizations, or People for people-
  3. Click on contact to related results (files, emails, etc.)

You can also search for contacts using the Command Bar or File Browser:

  1. Type @ to filter for people, or % to filter by organizations
  2. Type the contact's name
  3. Click on a contact to related results (files, emails, etc.)

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