Round-robin keep in touch

I know a group of folks who run through Facebook friend lists in alphabetical order for engagement/keep-in-touch reasons - they call this "A to Z", because they use Facebook's screen that lists friends, sorted alphabetically. Once they get to the Zs, they come back around to the As and go again. It's pretty light-touch engagement - a supportive message left via Messenger, a comment on a new post, and then move on to the next. They reach out to each friend as soon they can, but not before attempting to reach out to every other friend - quite different than the intentional frequencies set in Dex.

Unfortunately, Facebook's lazy-loaded friend list makes this method difficult over subsequent days - if I stop for the day at an "R", for example, with 1000 friends the next day I might be swiping down for 5 minutes to get to the "Rs" again, as the app only loads maybe 10 friends per swipe - not a great experience! And then of course I have to remember which "R" contact I was specifically last checking in with!

I was curious if Dex could offer a better experience for this particular use case, while also adding its CRM capabilities, but I don't see it right now. Certainly I could sort Dex's contact list, and maybe Dex's UI has better scrolling/indexing alphabetically than Facebook friend list does with 1000s of contacts, but even if so, there's the problem of remembering where I left off, and unless I do book-keeping in Dex to record how I kept in touch, I think Dex will not record clicking the Facebook Messenger or Facebook Profile link as keeping in touch? (I couldn't tell with the demo contacts I had.) Also, it seems to be a couple clicks/commands to engage with contacts on Facebook/Messenger - first open the profile, then click the button, with a bunch of mouse distance between these.

This felt to me like something that could work like Dex's "quick-action game" used to archive or set keep-in-touch on contacts. So let me describe a new "game" mode Dex might offer to handle this:

• Import all Facebook contacts to Dex (and keep them updated on a somewhat regular basis.) I thiink Dex can do this already.

• On one of the main screens there'd be an entry point into this game, similar to the entry point that appears for "quick-action."

• When starting this game for the first time, it'd ask if you want to go through your contacts in A to Z order, or just random - and if A-Z, would offer to let you start at a specific name (to handoff from the old method.) Whatever the order chosen, the key thing is that when you resume the game later, it remembers the list and where you were at.

• Also when starting the game it'd let you choose a contact method - e.g. Facebook Messenger, Facebook profile visit, SMS, email? And, the game would optionally filter the list of contacts down to those that have that method available.

• Then, the game would show a focused view on the first contact in the list, and a button/keyboard-shortcut to open the chosen contact method (e.g. to open the contact's Facebook profile, or to send that person an SMS.) Using that button/shortcut should suffice for tracking that you kept in touch with that person when playing this game - maybe it would log something specific to use of the game, with adding a note being optional.

• There'd also be the option to open the contact's full profile on Dex - and it might show most recent note or something like that inline in the focused view.

• After coming back to Dex, the game would move to next contact in the list. (A way to back up to prior contact would be nice to have, maybe not necessary.)

• The game would remember your progress, so that you could return to Dex on subsequent days and resume the game.

• Once you get to the end of the list, the game lets you restart with new settings. Maybe now e.g. you want to use SMS for the next pass through your contacts, or choose random order rather than A-Z.