I feel like it’s underrated and dismissed lately but I kind of thought Sinatra would be a good framework for a personal management app like this.
Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
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Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#132This 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.
Monica is quite different though - it's primarily for personal relationships, rather than professional ones. The tagline on the linked homepage is "Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones."
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#133Author 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 :-)
Can this software be deployed locally? I wouldn't feel comfortable with putting all my contacts in cloud
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#134Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I'm going to split hairs here, but i disagree that it is only for specialized purposes. I honestly believe that it is good for general purpose, but simply smaller scale. So, yes, agreed with your note on it being smaller scale. But i do believe that it can successfully be used for many, many scenarios fit for a CRM. I stick to my opinion that anyone thinking that they need functionality of a CRM should begin with a smaller scale tool like Monica, and then over time see if an "upgrade" to a larger-scale CRM is appropriate. Just my opinion of course. :-)
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#135I 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.
Obsidian seems to be a pretty powerful tool honestly a bit intimidated by it. I am trying to understand how important a relationship manager tool would be in both the professional and personal context.
https://forms.gle/SxRjGV73L1fGt2df7 if you're interested in adding your input.
So far many people are interested in having this solved for them but the time-to-value is too much overhead having to capture all the data and the importing of contacts from other places seems to be a real struggle.
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#136Author 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 :-)
Is this exclusive web app? If so what privacy protections do you have?
You can self host. We highly recommend that you self host. We prefer if you self host.
If you use our own version, it’s not as safe, obviously, even though we do our best to keep it secure.
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#137Earlier quoted context omitted.
So... you are just going to ignore Salesforce? One of the biggest SaaS with all customer relationship data.
Monica is quite different though - it's primarily for personal relationships, rather than professional ones. The tagline on the linked homepage is "Monica helps you organize the social interactions with your loved ones."
Sorry, I was commenting on the "not to have on a server" part. People have far more sensitive stuff on servers. Surely, CRM info of a big contract has way more at stake that notes about our mother in law. In fact, we have centralized all this sensitive customer data of so many big companies of the world in another company.
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#138Earlier quoted context omitted.
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?
Intern not personal assistant, and truly a joy to follow on twitter.
Re: Monica: Open-source personal relationship manager
#139Author 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 :-)
Can this software be deployed locally? I wouldn't feel comfortable with putting all my contacts in cloud
It's open source and the readme offers (very basic) instructions on how to do this.
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#140why 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.
well that's excellent, thank you.