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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Thanks a lot for the advice. I've been product manager for most of my career so I totally understand what you mean. I will definitely be careful in where I want Monica to go, and definitely I'll reach out to you on your email (but not today, I just received way too much feedback and emails thanks to HN today :-D

... Did you add him to your Monica? BTW is there a better way to say that?

Not yet :-D

"You've been Monica-ed"

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com

Could you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.

This is a CRON Job and the notation indicates the time and frequency that an action should take place. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com

Could you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.

Have a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cron#Overview.

In short: At 00:00 hours on 19/07 (i.e. July 19) execute that command. The * means 'regardless of what day of the week it is'.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com

Could you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.

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Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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No. My wife and I foster, so keeping track of hearings, therapies, medications, milestones, visitations, continuing education, etc. is quite a chore. This looks intriguing, but we are already restricted from posting to any social media, so as a family we decided to not host any data externally, if we can help it. If this were self hosted I'd be taking a much closer look.

It is self hosted if you like, it's open source. Feel free to host it yourself. https://github.com/monicahq/monica

I don't know how I missed that! Thank you for the direct link. I will take a closer look at it and give you feedback in the future.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com

Could you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.

It is crontab.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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Thank you so much for this! It's something that's been kicking around in the back of my head for ages, but it was never a big enough priority for me to tackle. I'll definitely be checking it out!

If you do, please tell me if you liked it or not, and more importantly, what could I add to make it better!

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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I built one of these for myself in 1995 and have been happily using it ever since. Here's the source code: 0 0 19 7 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: john T. birthday" me@mydomain.com 0 0 1 8 * /usr/bin/mail -s "REMINDER: MAKE xmas hotel reservations NOW for good pricing..." me@mydomain.com

Could you explain how it works? I wonder what 0 0 19 7 * means.

it's a crontab file.

'0 0 19 7 ' means 'midnight of July 19th, regardless () the weekday.

It is example 2 from 'man crontab'.

Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

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My uncle died suddenly this year. He was unbelievably caring - and not just to family - but to everyone he ever met. His funeral was jam packed with everyone from homeless people to executives of multi-billion dollar companies. I always thought that his ability to always have you, and whatever you had last talked about with him, on his mind at any moment was some kind of supernatural gift. I was surprised to find out…

This is exactly what Facebook should be. An augmented agent to help us be more helpful and empathetic to friends and family. I'm sorry for your loss. Your uncle sounds like a great human being.

But what it really is an advertising platform. I mean if Facebook charged for usage then I'd pay for it.
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