Are you a frequent user of iChat, Apple’s IM chat application? If so, you know how hard it is to keep track of hundreds of contacts at once. Let’s get organized!

Organize By Groups

Grouped organizing is nothing new, but finding a convenient way to name and manage your groups can be difficult at the best of times.

Start by creating three groups with these names:

• Very Frequent
• Frequent
• Occasional
• Hardly Ever

Now go through each and every one of your contacts and add them to the applicable group. These groups are based on the frequency you talk to them.

So if it’s someone like your girlfriend who you are constantly talking to, you could add her to the Very Frequent group. But if it’s the manager of your web-hosting account who you only talk to when you have problems with your website could fall under Hardly Ever.

This way you can use the collapse feature in iChat to collapse all the groups apart from Very, and Frequent, allowing you to see the contacts who really matter to you easily.

Happy iChatting!