I tried out Monica when it was posted to hn ages ago and still get the occasional reminder. But I've mostly switched to using the contacts app on my iphone for everything. It has primitive features that support 95% of what I need.
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#12why aren't mentioning their failed rewrite from 3 years ago?
https://www.monicahq.com/en/blog/chandler-is-in-beta/
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#13I'm a happy self-hosted Monica user, I like that I have alerts set to remind me of birthdays and other events, and that there's a place to list, e.g. everyone who got a Christmas card from me last year. I recommend it to people.
I'm agnostic about a rewrite, I never used Chandler and as far as I'm concerned it's perfectly serviceable for me the end user as it is. I rarely use the UI. I have been contemplating interacting with it more agentically, maybe having a bot update the record that I had a beer with someone instead of doing it by hand, but I like that it's focused.
I have started musing about how I might bridge it to other systems, like the people I have resolved from faces in my Immich photos, but I neither want or expect Monica to do this for me.
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#15I'll take "things you should never do" for $1000 Alex. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Written before LLMs made Big Rewrites an absolute doddle.
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#16I tried out Monica when it was posted to hn ages ago and still get the occasional reminder. But I've mostly switched to using the contacts app on my iphone for everything. It has primitive features that support 95% of what I need.
Contacts + calendar app for me, so you can keep on top of birthdays and other special occasions, know when people are away/back, etc.
A personal CRM sounds like a very interesting idea but I would feel weird building profiles on people like that.
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#17why aren't mentioning their failed rewrite from 3 years ago? https://www.monicahq.com/en/blog/chandler-is-in-beta/
and that Chandler is different from this Chandler? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chandler_(software)
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#18I'll take "things you should never do" for $1000 Alex. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
Joel Spolsky wrote that about "large scale commercial applications", which Monica definitely is not.
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#19I'll take "things you should never do" for $1000 Alex. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2000/04/06/things-you-should-...
that made sense when people painstakingly typed out code by hand. Nowadays the code doesn't really matter and can be trivially thrown away and regenerated as needed.
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#20Great! Maybe this time around I’ll manage to get the email notifications going