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I find it rather tedious to add a contact from within Google+ interface to a circle. I would rather add the contact from within the contacts section in Gmail. Is this possible?
Better yet, can it automatically add/create contacts to circles in Google+ from my groups that I've already associated my contacts to?
While Lipis' answer still works, there's another method as well.
With the message open, hover your mouse pointer over the sender's name. An info card will pop up. If the address is not already in your contacts, you can click the "Add to Contacts" button to open a contact edit form with the name and email address already filled out.
(The Add and invite button is for adding the person to your Google+ Circles.)
No, there isn't. I have seen several people post such a proposal as a Google+ message, however. I hope that Google is considering it.
There is at least one guy who is faking it by creating multiple, specially-named circles. For instance, he has a "Friends: Online" circle and a "Friends: All" circle. Anyone he drops into "Friends: Online" he also drops into "Friends: All". This'll break down, of course, if he forgets someone.
Here's a similar approach.
Best Answer
It is not currently possible. When adding a contact to a circle in Google+, that contact does show up in Gmail contacts and in Google Contacts. What gets added to the contacts database is a new contact with a a url entry titled "profile" and with a Google profile url, e.g. mine is https://www.google.com/profiles/106258285517412659099. Part of being a contact in Google+ is being in a circle. From Google or Gmail contacts, there is no way to designate a circle. There is also no way from the API to do this currently as well.