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Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by majikandy »

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 :-)

Might you be better off spending the effort on improving the codebase of the existing product instead of rewriting from scratch?

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by naikrovek »

why are tools that capture personal relationships always (apparently) online-only?

I don't understand why companies keep building social networks and trying to capture this stuff.

to be clear, there's a lot I don't understand, so maybe it makes perfect sense, but I doubt it.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by jedisct1 »

naikrovek wrote: post #122

why are tools that capture personal relationships always (apparently) online-only? I don't understand why companies keep building social networks and trying to capture this stuff. to be clear, there's a lot I don't understand, so maybe it makes perfect sense, but I doubt it.

As clearly stated on the front page, you can install it on your own server if you want to.

This is open source, and they even provide a ready-to-run Docker image.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by selfhoster11 »

herbst wrote: post #120
robinhood wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In terms of simplicity, nothing beats PHP. It's easily deployable everywhere, everyone knows how to use this simple language, and the Laravel ecosystem is fantastic. But I understand what you mean.

This is only true if you have a LAMP server already. On none of my servers runs PHP, so setting that up would be definitly more work than adding another binary to my systemd.

How so? If you use Docker, there are all-in-one images. If you use conventional deployment, there are howto guides and/or meta packages to get things up and running.

Besides, a lot of people use shared hosting for any number of reasons. Anything not PHP based is doomed there.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by selfhoster11 »

circular_lights wrote: post #102

I'd honestly rather someone forget my name than appear to remember it because they looked it up in some "relationship manager".

I wish I had a memory good enough to remember the names of anyone besides my own family and the people I interact with on a weekly basis. Actually scratch that, I don’t even remember the names of some of my extended family.

Look, you might think this is creepy, and I get that. But for some, this kind of software is a valuable crutch. And you wouldn’t kick a crutch out from under someone who cannot walk unassisted.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by selfhoster11 »

thy77 wrote: post #14

Anyone have a review? Do you like Monica and Chandler better than Monday and Asana?

I haven’t used Monica yet (though I’ve been considering it for a while), but I can tell you straight away that Monday and Asana don’t let you self-host.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by selfhoster11 »

mxuribe wrote: post #34
thy77 wrote: post #14

Anyone have a review? Do you like Monica and Chandler better than Monday and Asana?

I've not used Monday, and I only used Asana for a few days when it first came out years ago. But i have used Monica somewhat minimally over the last year. So, my comments don't offer a fair comparison...But what i can say is that Monica hits the sweet spot of more than someone manually keeping notes in their mailbox or addressbok....but less than something like Salesforce, etc. Its actually well built from its minima…

Ultimately Monica just isn’t meant for that kind of scale. It’s more specialised.

Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager

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Post by selfhoster11 »

kstrauser wrote: post #78
erisian wrote: post #72

This project makes me feel sick.

Why?

Presumably, because it’s perceived as technology intruding into a very personal and intimate sphere that’s social relationships with people you know very well.

I personally don’t care. If you have to remember my face using a digital system because your analogue one won’t handle it, then that’s an accessibility feature.

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