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New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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So when is Ross, Joey and Phoebe?

We already have it

Ross is for an app that pretends to love you then constantly cheats on you, kinda like Facebook.

Phoebe: App to feel holier/superior than everyone (TikTok).

Joey: Tinder, don't need descriptions at all.

Rachael: App to show off, Instagram

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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post #33

I genuinely appreciate Monica, and congrats to the team. However, I've been searching for a native Android app and haven't come across a suitable alternative, as the Monica app has been discontinued. I'm looking for an app that helps me remember significant dates and details about my acquaintances, provides birthday reminders, and allows me to take notes on them. Does anyone have any recommendations?

At least on iOS you can do all of that with the native contacts app

Yeah, I assumed most such tools do. Is that not the case?

(Amusingly, though, my own "how to keep track of birthdays" solution predates the addition of such fields to address books. When I learned your birthday, I would just put it in my (paper!) calendar, and transfer it annually.

Then when digital calendars happened, I just entered them there. To this day I have a calendar called "Annual Dates" that is comprised entirely of birthdays and other milestones worth keeping up with. Consequently and ironically, I don't use the in-address-book fields. Still.)

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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post #66

Is this name collision, or is Monica somehow related to the previous Chandler? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_%28software%29

Both are characters from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friends

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Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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I’ve had “personal CRM” in my ideas file since 2003. In fact, I failed to convince a buddy to apply to the very first YC batch with it. Love the concept. But I’d love the landing page at beta.monicahq.com to describe what Monica (or in this case Chandler) actually does. A short video, some screenshots, anything… right now it’s not clear to me why I’d click “signup”.

I think it's just because that's their "app" login page, where you already know what it does and you already have an account. When I go to login to AWS or Datadog or whatever, the login page doesn't tell me what it does, either. Like you, though, I've also had "personal CRM" as a potential project for a very long time. Monica is a great step in that direction, and I've happily used it for many years, but it's not all…

I want the Taskwarrior of personal crm.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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post #33

I genuinely appreciate Monica, and congrats to the team. However, I've been searching for a native Android app and haven't come across a suitable alternative, as the Monica app has been discontinued. I'm looking for an app that helps me remember significant dates and details about my acquaintances, provides birthday reminders, and allows me to take notes on them. Does anyone have any recommendations?

i tried an app called fabriq, it is unpolished but definitely works well.

Re: New version of Monica, codename Chandler, is available in beta

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Author here. Super happy with this release. It took us 18 months of working on it "side project style". Almost every night and weekends actually. It's a full rewrite of the current project, with its own advantages and disadvantages of a rewrite. I hope people who used it before and didn't like it, will give it another try this time. I hope that current users who love Monica, will love this new version even more.

When is the current hosted monicahq going to upgrade to chandler?
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