A Circle is a group on Sagazo with its own feed, its own member list, and its own chat. Anything posted in a Circle stays on its feed, so a useful post from last month is still there when you need it, not buried under three hundred newer messages.
That last part is the point. Most groups in India live on WhatsApp, and WhatsApp is built for chatting, not for keeping things. Ask a question in a 200-member group and it is gone by evening. Circles keep posts and chat separate, so both work.
Joining a Circle
Browse the Circles page to see what is already running. Public Circles are open: tap Join and you are in. Private Circles show their name and what they are about, but the posts are members-only, so you ask to join and an admin lets you in.
You can be in as many Circles as you like.
Starting your own
Tap Create Circle on the Circles page, give it a name and a line about what it is for, and choose public or private. New Circles are reviewed before they go live, which is how we keep out spam and duplicate groups. It usually does not take long.
Public means anyone can find it and join. Private means the feed is members-only. An apartment building probably wants private. A cooking circle probably wants public, because strangers finding you is the point.
Posting in a Circle
Use the same + Post button you post anywhere with, and pick your Circle in the “Post to” box. If you open the composer from inside a Circle, it is already selected.
Photos work, plain text works, and so do polls, which settle the “which date suits everyone” question in one post. And a post in a public Circle can also show up on the main feed, which is how new people discover the group.
The Circle chat
Every Circle also has a group chat, for the quick back-and-forth that does not belong on the feed. Timings, confirmations, “has anyone reached?”. The feed keeps what matters, and the chat absorbs the rest.
What people use Circles for
An apartment Circle, where the water-tanker schedule is a post you can find on Thursday instead of a message from Monday. A resellers’ Circle, where members share suppliers and courier tips. A badminton group that runs its weekend games on a poll instead of forty messages of “in”, “out” and “maybe”.
If that sounds like a group you already run somewhere else, start it as a Circle and see what a difference a feed makes.