The authors are rewriting this software under a new name. https://github.com/monicahq/chandler
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#12Monica had issues importing my contacts. Too many it says. I didn't have /that/ many. It always stopped me from exploring it further.
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#13The authors are rewriting this software under a new name. https://github.com/monicahq/chandler
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
Well this is a very simple system and could for instance be reimplemented in Ruby On Rails in ... a few days?
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#14Anyone have a review? Do you like Monica and Chandler better than Monday and Asana?
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#15The authors are rewriting this software under a new name. https://github.com/monicahq/chandler
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
It's mentioned on their blog: https://www.monicahq.com/blog/a-new-version-is-coming
> [...] Monica is an old code base now. Old in the sense that it’s 7 years old and it has been touched by hundred of contributors. There are some concepts in the code that we let through, because we either didn’t know any better back then or because we didn’t want to piss off contributors, that we don’t want anymore. The project has way too many dependencies, and maintaining the code has become harder than it was before. Changing something is riskier, and takes more time. Also, we’ve seen how people use Monica, what they want to do with it, and the current code limits us way too much if we want to support what people want to use Monica for. Finally, Monica is still a side project for us. We are extremely passionate about it, and we want to also have fun building it. And the current version wasn’t that fun.
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#16Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
Well this is a very simple system and could for instance be reimplemented in Ruby On Rails in ... a few days?
I'm sure it's not the most sophisticated software, but the repo has 3,736 commits over several years. I would imagine it would take them more than a few days :)
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#17Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
It's mentioned on their blog: https://www.monicahq.com/blog/a-new-version-is-coming > [...] Monica is an old code base now. Old in the sense that it’s 7 years old and it has been touched by hundred of contributors. There are some concepts in the code that we let through, because we either didn’t know any better back then or because we didn’t want to piss off contributors, that we don’t want anymore. The project has w…
Thanks! Over the years I've seen several companies raise VC money for the personal CRM idea and fail. In a way, I'm glad they didn't raise outside capital and are able to sustain themselves while building something that they are clearly passionate about.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Does anyone know why they are rewriting the whole thing? The github page doesn't mention the reasoning behind the decision
Well this is a very simple system and could for instance be reimplemented in Ruby On Rails in ... a few days?
We do these things not because they are easy, but because we thought they would be easy.
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#19Thank you for posting this! I saw this posted on Hackernews a few years ago. I've looked for it since then a few times when wanting to get started on relationship management but could not remember enough about the project to find it via search engine.
Sometimes Hackernews is like a very slow reverse search engine!
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#20I love the Friends reference behind both product names. I also have been using Obsidian for this (and before that, any generic note taking software).
To me this sort of software is really powerful if you have the time to constantly tend to it. I wish I had this built into my mind.