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Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
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Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#12I plan to use MonicaHQ , I failed to self host behind a reverse proxy and the effort was no longer prioritized but I would be interested if anyone else is using it.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#13Word of warning: I tried Marissa Mayer's Sunshine contacts and it nuked my phone's contacts. Luckily I had a backup vcard export from way back I could restore from.
Others I've tried:
* Clay (https://clay.earth) is a great option for "batteries included". Based on what you described, it can pull from Google/Outlook, Linkedin, and messaging apps. Doesn't get all the duplicates but gets close enough, and they offer carddav for 2-way sync to phone.
* Monica (http://monicahq.com) works for more barebones and self-hosted. They were working on a new version, not sure if it was ever merged into main product. I tried it once and it ended up being more of a gift and birthdays-focused notes app for me, but YMMV.
* Otherwise a Notion doc or spreadsheet might be enough! Especially if you start with an export from something else.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#14I use my note app for casual personal crm. No outside sync features, but entry is easy if you’re looking for some variation of simple.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#15Word of warning: I tried Marissa Mayer's Sunshine contacts and it nuked my phone's contacts. Luckily I had a backup vcard export from way back I could restore from. Others I've tried: * Clay ( https://clay.earth ) is a great option for "batteries included". Based on what you described, it can pull from Google/Outlook, Linkedin, and messaging apps. Doesn't get all the duplicates but gets close enough, and they offer c…
are you somehow related to any of these products?
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#16Google may be a privacy issue... So I would love to have the possibility to prevent anyone putting my info in their contacts in Google. I personally use a paid E-Mail service (mailbox.org) and a self hosted nextcloud. The APP myphoneexplorer can be used to sync offline.
Yep. I can avoid saying yes to all of the apps that want to access my contacts, but I can't prevent everyone I know, from doing the same :-(
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#17Word of warning: I tried Marissa Mayer's Sunshine contacts and it nuked my phone's contacts. Luckily I had a backup vcard export from way back I could restore from. Others I've tried: * Clay ( https://clay.earth ) is a great option for "batteries included". Based on what you described, it can pull from Google/Outlook, Linkedin, and messaging apps. Doesn't get all the duplicates but gets close enough, and they offer c…
are you somehow related to any of these products?
Some of my team worked with Marissa at Google, and I worked with the former CTO of Sunshine which is why I originally tried it.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#18My source of truth is a self-hosted Radicale CardDAV server with git revision control of vCard data in the backend. Clients are anything that speaks CardDAV, including Thunderbird or DAVX on Android. Raw vCard data is only a "git clone" away, and is an input to scripts to handle birthdays and mailing list updates.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#19I wrote a scraper to create vCard contacts from Facebook a few years ago when I still used Facebook.
Re: Ask HN: In 2024 what's the best way to manage contacts?
#20I use Fastmail which has CardDAV syncing, and generally it's worked great. One or twice I've noticed it stops syncing and I have to remove + re-add the sync profile, but generally speaking I've been pretty happy with the results.