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Contacts: who a document is from or about

Link documents to the people, organizations, and equipment they involve.

3 min read · Updated June 28, 2026


Beyond categories and tags, a document can be linked to contacts: the people, organizations, or even equipment it involves. Stoatify tracks two roles, who a document is from or to (the correspondent) and what it's about (concerning), so you can pull up everything tied to one company, person, or asset.

Kinds of contact

  • Organizations, a bank, an insurer, a landlord.
  • People, a doctor, an accountant, a family member.
  • Equipment, an appliance, a vehicle, anything with its own paper trail.

Use them

  1. 1Open a document and set its Correspondent (who it's from or to) and Concerning (what it's about).
  2. 2Manage the full list in Settings → Library → Contacts.
  3. 3Filter the vault by Contact to see everything tied to one of them.

Good to know

You can also record a document's direction, incoming or outgoing, alongside its contact, handy for separating bills you receive from letters you send.

Tip

Contacts pair with storage paths: a template like {created_year}/{correspondent}/{title} files everything by who it's from.

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