Maybe you should call it "PRO" - Personal Relationship Organizer :) Or "Monica PRO".
Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
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#252Is anyone else getting a dystopian vibe from the idea of "managing" friends and family? I can definitely see this service being useful, but that branding makes me feel very uncomfortable.
My first thought was that it can be subpoenaed. For example: if, unbeknownst to you, two of your friends were involved in some kind of criminal conspiracy and you had spoken/met with both of them near the time it was known that they had met, an enterprising prosecutor could use your record of having met with them to accuse you of having taken part.
Hum. Is there anything I can do to prevent that?
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#253I don't see how this is anything more than a wiki with a really nice skin.
Wiki = most web apps = interface to a database. So in a sense, it's all the same, just another way to look at it. So,no, it's not really different. Except perhaps that a wiki doesn't send you emails for reminders?
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#254Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first thought was that it can be subpoenaed. For example: if, unbeknownst to you, two of your friends were involved in some kind of criminal conspiracy and you had spoken/met with both of them near the time it was known that they had met, an enterprising prosecutor could use your record of having met with them to accuse you of having taken part.
Hum. Is there anything I can do to prevent that?
Not really. If it's on your server and not protected by something like the DMCA, you have to turn it over if legally ordered to. Check with a lawyer though.
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#255Why would I want trust even more personal data to a web service?
Why couldn't this be an app on my phone that synced securely with other instances of the app on my other devices?
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#256Looks great and useful! One small UX issue I've just hit - I missed the "edit" button in the "Personal Information" box when viewing a contact for a few moments. Kept trying to click the "Birthdate is not set" etc text.
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#257Re: Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family
#258Looks great and useful! One small UX issue I've just hit - I missed the "edit" button in the "Personal Information" box when viewing a contact for a few moments. Kept trying to click the "Birthdate is not set" etc text.
Oh also, there are >16000 countries in the select box on the edit person page.
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#259I like this idea. :) We could even collaborate if interested. For the very same purposes, plus to organize everything else I want to, I wrote and use OneModel (AGPL), creating inside it a calendar with ticklers, lists of gift ideas or other ideas for activities, etc, all sorted by when I want to see them or how I can most easily find them in a hierarchy. I have created a sort of structure for things I might to rememb…
onemodel looks good. I'd love it as a knowledge graph editor that focuses on information from a personal standpoint. Would be interesting to map the data model to RDF. Java has many good RDF libraries such as Jena.
If it had RDF export would that make you a user? I need feedback (eg, users) now (along with some prettifying and installers). I invite you to join the discussion list and continue this.
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#260Founder here. Here to answer any questions you might have. The site is not perfect, it's not mobile optimized, there are probably bugs, there is a gazillion features missing, no APIs but it's a labour of love, open-source and I hope it will help people other than me. I want to grow this product but I need to know what you need, people. Edit: sorry for the bugs I see on my server popping here and there. Didnt expect t…
One note, in location the defaults are "Province" and "Postal code" with country at US by default. I haven't tried but if you have any kind of data validation for those inputs it may annoy some of your US users.
I sometimes stumble on some site that only allow five numbers for zip codes and not the six alphanumeric characters we use for postal codes.
I would change "Postal code" to "ZIP" and "Province" to "State" if someone selects US as a country.