Your Personal Contact Card: A Business Card That Never Goes Stale

Here's an uncomfortable truth: right now, dozens of people have a version of you saved in their phones, and most of those versions are wrong. The job title from two companies ago. The email you stopped checking. The address you moved out of. You can't fix their address books… unless your contact card fixes itself.

That's the idea behind the Personal Contact Card. We've toured everyone else's cards already. Now let's look at yours, which comes with a set of features no other card has: privacy controls, audiences, and an approval handshake.

Meet your card

Click Edit Personal Card. It's always one click away, right under your photo in the sidebar. Your card looks familiar: photo, verified badge, your email addresses with one-click copy, and the same category layout every contact card uses.

Two details worth noticing before we get to the headline features:

• Trevally proposes merges even for you: if your own identity is scattered across duplicates (an old Gmail, a notification address), the Merging Suggestions strip offers to consolidate them, exactly like it does for any other contact.
• You may have more than one card: under My Account, My Contact Cards lists a card per identity, searchable by name or email.

And if you filled something in right after signing up, you've already met this card: while the first sync runs, Trevally pops up a quick "let's get your Contact Card updated" dialog with just the essential fields. Those seconds were you filling in your card for the first time.

Make it yours: any field you can imagine

Hit Edit and the card stops being a fixed form. The Add Custom Attribute dialog gives you two paths: pick from the catalog of predefined fields (Birthday, Nickname, Street address…) or invent your own: choose the type, name it, set a placeholder and size. Your Signal handle, your calendar-booking link, your PIX key: if it's how people reach you, it belongs on your card.

The privacy model: two layers, total control

Sharing your card doesn't mean sharing everything. This is where the personal card earns its keep, with two independent layers of control.

Layer 1: every field has an eye. Next to each field sits a visibility selector: Visible or Hidden. Hidden fields stay on your card, for your eyes only. They're simply never shared. Your birthday can live on your card without becoming public knowledge.

Layer 2: every category has an audience. Each section of your card (Basic Information, Contact Details, Professional Information…) has its own audience dropdown, and this is where it gets clever:

• Trusted Contacts: everyone you've approved (more on that below);
• No One: the whole category stays private, overriding everything else;
• Your contact lists: remember lists as privacy circles? This is it, fully realized. Share Contact Details with "Trevally Members" while Basic Information goes to all trusted contacts, and audiences even combine, like Trusted Contacts + Trevally Members.

Field visibility × category audience means statements as precise as: "my mobile number is visible, but only to my Close Friends list."

The handshake: nobody gets in without your approval

So who are these "Trusted Contacts"? People who use Trevally and want to stay synced with your card don't just get it. They show up on your dashboard's Trusted Contacts widget as pending requests, and each one waits for your explicit Approve or Deny:

As the widget itself puts it: only allowed users will receive updates from your Contact Card. Deny someone and they keep whatever stale version they had. Your updates flow only to the people you've let in.

What the other side sees

Once approved, your trusted contacts stop maintaining you manually. In their Trevally, your card carries the blue Account Verified badge, and when you change your number or title, their copy of you updates: silently, automatically, correctly. One edit on your side; everyone who matters stays current.

That's the quiet role reversal: instead of a hundred people each owning a decaying copy of your details, there's one card, owned by you, and a hundred always-fresh views of it.

Publish yourself

Open Edit Personal Card, fill in what people actually need, hide what they don't, point each category at the right audience, and approve the people you trust. Five minutes now. You'll never email "here's my new number, please update" again.

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