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[spoorun]

Currently
There is no way of syncing or storing or setting preferred items within a field type.
For example preferred email address, preferred phone etc...
Most other modern systems allow this.
It permits syncing, allows the user to intuitively email or dial the correct details and store that important information intuitively. It also ensures that the User sees the most important fields first (for example if there are a lot of phone numbers stored).

Resolution:

1. For each major item type a User should be able to set a 'preferred' item, by clicking a star symbol next to the item.

2. The items which are not preferred would have a hollow star, the ones which are would have a filled-in grey star.

3. Only one item of each type would be able to be preferred.

4. This would be stored and synced with other devices/software via vCard using the PREF parameter.

5. It would apply to: Phone, Email, Address, Instant messaging, Social network, Website, Related person, Related Organisation

This would be intuitive to most users, since other interfaces use the same paradigm (Android, Google and Apple for example), and 'favourites' is fairly clearly assigned by a star symbol. Since the star is used for preferred contact details in other systems, and the Preference will be synced over, it will very useful when users have multiple phone numbers for a contact, and can't be expected to remember which is the main one, and want that one dialed straight-off without searching.

Example:
Mary has 3 mobiles, a work phone, and a home phone. User designates one of her mobiles as preferred, helping her remember which to call first, and this will also sync to the User's smartphone via CardDAV, making dialling easier.