Enable Local Indexing / Caching For Desktop/Mobile
Dex for desktop has gotten slower since filling it with more contacts.
I would love to be able to leverage my computer's excess hardware resources by allowing all of the data to be indexed/cache'd on a local temporary files area on my hard drive.
This would allow for snappy instant retrieval, and the software would only need to retrieve or post new changes to/from the server.
Realistically, the majority of people's contact's and info do not change day to day.
Dex has its nearest (new and unnamed) competitor beat on features and polish, but their search and retrieval is lightning quick at this time compared to dex.
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Axel Ackermann
Mar 5, 2025
I would extend that to the mobile app as well, As the performance is way too slow as it reads everything from the server, not from a local cache
Feb 18, 2025
Mason User
May 3, 2023
Less of a feature, more of a bug
Greg User
Oct 12, 2022
Strongly agree on this -- although Tom's point is also valid (just fixing it so it doesn't jump to the very top of the list after you use the search function), being able to click on letters of the alphabet to jump to those rows would be a huge time saver instead of having to scroll all the way down every time when working through a big list of contacts to clean up etc.
Kevin Sun
May 26, 2022
Hi Matt User and Tom K-anonymous -- is this on the web application when you open a contact from a list, and then go back? (or this on the mobile app?)
Tom K-anonymous
May 26, 2022
Kevin Sun: web app.
Matt User
May 26, 2022
Kevin Sun: +1 for web app
Kevin Sun
May 26, 2022
Matt User: Hi folks -- having trouble reproducing this -- is this on the main contacts list? (when do you see this jumping-to-top behavior?)
Tom K-anonymous
May 23, 2022
I've run into the same thing, it'd be better if it just was smarter about staying at the new row in the people list so we don't have to keep scrolling to get back to where you already were.