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What if this isn't a memory issue? What if we don't need to remember everything and overestimate our roles as tiny person on blue dot? Or what if we don't remember due to valuing things more than people? The app becomes an illusory replacement of genuine interaction.
I think this is a good augmentation of our own mind, as are the others
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I have a friend who does this. It used to be that every year or so he would come out to where I live for a convention he liked to go to and he would stay at my house for 3-4 days and we'd catch up, go do some stuff in the evening when he wasn't at the convention, etc. One year he resolved to "do better about keeping up" - apparently feeling bad that our entire message history was him texting me a month before the con…
> Frankly, I don't need to know how he is doing every few months and I find it a bit awkward to make small talk any way. There's a bit of secret sauce here that I tend to rely on to prevent myself from being considered "that guy". First and foremost, I do this as much as possible via e-mail. Phone or WhatsApp is indeed too "personal" for these type of things (save for one person, an old boss of mine, who I have a sch…
Compare that to a text , where you might send a sentence or two and expect them to come back with something- when in fact, they weren't thinking about YOU and therefore aren't prepared to respond. Hence awkward.
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You aren’t kidding. A 13 question survey AND a 15 minute call to review the app before I can sign up? Plus, there are no available times to call in December. Yeesh.
Founder of Dex here! Apologies for the involved flow + being booked through December. Since everyone manages relationships differently, we've found it a valuable step for our new users. ('do things that don't scale'). If you send me a note (you'll have my email from completing the survey), also happy to send self-service instructions as well.
Does PHP keep backward compatibility? I ever used some open source PHP soft (forums and wikis) several years ago. The development of these soft has been discontinued for a long time now. Recently, I decided to re-install the php4 age but failed. There are too many APIs and syntax are broken now. Anyone else have the same experiences?
If you are on PHP4 and are moving to the 7.x series plan for some pain.
My problem is I try to find things that will work with flat files. I just spent some time moving from Mediawiki to PMwiki, because of the database nonsense in keeping that in sync with PHP and Mediawiki.
I'd love to find a CRM tool that had the flexibility shown here but would live in flat files that I may have a chance to import into something else.
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That was Google+
And they even called it circles.
What is needed is built-in support for the idea of "INNER CIRCLE". Those are the people with whom you are willing to share your phone-number with etc.
I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends. The best part of it would be that unlike in a CRM I wouldn't have to keep this data up-to-date. My (actual) friends would update their own data, only. Everybody would need to only keep their own data w…
> I would love to have a social media platform where I can have multiple tiers of friends. Social Media "friends" and separately a circle of ACTUAL friends. You would get more access to the data shared by actual friends. "Um, /u/galaxyLogic? Why aren't I in you "ACTUAL" friends list? Is there something you want to tell me? Are we not actually friends?" I see what you're trying to say - Facebook friends are often just…
I can see the point. Nobody wants to be perceived as rude. At the same time I think everybody understands that if we've never met in person we probably are not friends enough to exchange phone-numbers for instance.
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I totally get this thinking, but I am oriented totally differently from you. I will forget my friend's birthdays, their kids names, their wife's names, things they've talked about recently, etc, etc. I have a terrible memory for this stuff. I'm not sure if it's just me being stubborn, but all of these things just feel very slippery to my mind. On the other end, I will remember in vibrant detail very trivial facts tha…
You won't forget the names when it matters. If you can't remember these basic details, it's a sign that person is not close enough to you for it to actually matter. Or, maybe you're like me and you just met the person five minutes ago. Either case is forgivable.
I keep forgetting the names of my friends wives and children. I talk to them weekly.
The only birthdays I remember are mine, my wife's and my kids. I kinda remember the season my other family members birthdays, maybe the month if I really strain. Couldn't tell the actual date even if you waterboarded me.
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I tried the app, it crashes quite frequently, but seems like a very neat integration with iOS and I would consider using it if I could understand how data mobility is handled per my other comment. Thanks!
Thanks for checking it out! Are you using iOS 14? After the upgrade I’ve seen an increase in crashes for CloudKit storage. Hope to have a fix out soon. I will follow up on the data mobility in your other comment.
Comments so far:
1. I really enjoy the deep integration with iOS, I have not experienced an app that works in this way.
2. It would be great if the notes attached to a contact were saved in the iOS contacts notes, as from my testing this didn't seem to be the case.
3. I would like to be able to export all data into some format, and ideally import from a standard format as well.
Thank you for creating this, I've been using Notion which often feels too slow and separate from the flow of "keeping in touch".
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I think the resistance towards that particular book is because the full title is "How to win friends and influence people". The last part in particular is what makes it sound sleazy. It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends".
> It would be very different if the book had just been called "How to make friends". I think it is the other way round. People criticize it because "How to make friends" is the first and more prominent part of the title, while the book is not primarily about that. "How to influence people" fits the content much better than "How to win friends" but "influence" isn't the most appropriate word either and I guess that wo…