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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by Shank »

robinhood wrote: post #33
nico wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every re-write I’ve ever seen or been a part of, has either failed or taken way longer and a lot more effort than initially projected. Changing something is definitely not riskier, especially if you have tests and real users who are actively providing feedback as well as showing the edge cases. You can also focus on changing only the things that need changing, instead of having to redo everything just to change some…

Author of Chandler here. While rewriting the project is extremely fun and definitely a very good learning curve for us, we actually care A LOT about our users. I believe Chandler is much, much better to use than the current crappy Monica. It's easier, better UI and UX wise, and have way better features. And we are working our asses off to provide an API, and an importer to let you import your data so you won't lose a…

> We have merged things in the codebase from the community that we shouldn't have merge.

Do you have examples of what these features are/were?

And, sort of tangentially, do you recommend actually setting up Monica in 2022 or waiting until Chandler to try the stack?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by oefnak »

robinhood wrote: post #31
johnchristopher wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not to be confused with https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software) I suppose ^^.

Author of Monica/Chandler here. I didn't know that existed, thanks for pointing that out. That being said, Chandler is the codename. It'll be renamed to Monica once it's ready.

After Monica Lewinsky, personal assistant of president Clinton?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by TEP_Kim_Il_Sung »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Just Monica?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by nullcipher »

mulderc wrote: post #22

This is the type of software I would really prefer not to have on a server. The only part of this I would want not on my device locally would be an encrypted backup.

So... you are just going to ignore Salesforce? One of the biggest SaaS with all customer relationship data.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by webmobdev »

TedDoesntTalk wrote: post #91
robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

I've never heard of this software category before. For decades, I've managed this info with an online calendar (annual reminders for birthdays, for example), and online contact/address book (notes section heavily levegered). This is pretty cool - thanks for bringing it to my attention!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Personal_information_manager

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by simonebrunozzi »

> Monica lets you quickly and easily log all those information so you can be a better friend, family member or spouse.

Are we sure that to be a better friend, you need a digital reminder that your friends, their children, etc, exist?

I used to have calendar reminders of birthdays of friends, etc. I then removed them all. If it's really about a friend, I will remember without any help.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by yumaikas »

robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Chandler reminds me of another, I'll fated PIM project, documented in Dreaming in Code.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by myuzio »

simonebrunozzi wrote: post #107

> Monica lets you quickly and easily log all those information so you can be a better friend, family member or spouse. Are we sure that to be a better friend, you need a digital reminder that your friends, their children, etc, exist? I used to have calendar reminders of birthdays of friends, etc. I then removed them all. If it's really about a friend, I will remember without any help.

Nothing wrong with getting some help from automation though. It makes things more effective, so if you want to keep relationship with friends/family then you will get that, if you don't want that person to be in your reminders, just remove them. It helps keeping your mind free for other stuff.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by dwoxctbvgq »

TEP_Kim_Il_Sung wrote: post #104
robinhood wrote: post #37

Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife , yet to be released. I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

Just Monica?

Just Monika.
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