I’ve been looking for something like this for a long time.
I think it has to have automated capture. Get everything from email account, text messages and the calendar to fill out the relationship.
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#42Earlier quoted context omitted.
Seems like it would be interesting to report them for a violation of GDPR. They’re a good example of a company that should be zealously compliant.
Oh for sure, there’s no way I wouldn’t report them for all the hurdles they threw at me trying to not accept my GDPR request. I only received the account deletion confirmation email on Friday though so I still have to write that all up and I don’t even know yet where I’m supposed to send my complaint to. But I’ll figure that out.
you need to send complaints to your data protection authority, each european country has one.
Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
#43How kind of you to have made such a thing. It can be useful for people with memory problems.
How inspiring.
Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
#44I'm looking for systems that have Orgmode compatibility, since some really cool personal PIM apps that don't require emacs are starting to gain traction. Orgzly, for example, is a really good hierarchical notetaker mobile app. The orgmode-compatible tools still have some rough edges, but the usability issues look solvable. Does Monica have any sort of Orgmode support?
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#45previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14497295
Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
#46I like that it is open source and I can self-host. Were there any security concerns for open sourcing the project? And what makes you choose AGPLv3?
To speculate: the AGPL is the most common license that keeps to the spirit of free software when it comes to licensing for anything that could possibly be used in a web-facing product. If they didn't use it, it's likely that someone would have made a company profiting off of their work by now.
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#47I would like to use this product but it feels irresponsible to do so. Why are we still making technology that stores such personal information without data being encrypted end-2-end?
Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
#48Two procedural issues:
(1) "Show HN" is for projects that are the submitter's personal work. It doesn't look like this is the case here. The rules are at https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
(2) This account is part of a ring of abusive accounts that we banned a while ago, which is why the post was killed on submission and had to be vouched for by users. Generally that's a good thing, but this case wasn't so obvious.
All: using sockpuppet accounts to vote and comment on HN will eventually get all your accounts and sites banned on HN, so please just don't. (Just for clarity, there's no reason to think that the creator of this project had anything to do with this.)
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#49Would have loved to try this (I know hundreds of people, but I only interact with them every few months), but this is unnecessarily hard to install. I would have to change my webserver config just to run this, which seems really strange for a PHP application... And I'm a sysadmin! Not sure if I want to deal with this in the long term, if even installing it is a pain.
What specifically seems strange to you? Reading the Ubuntu docs, seems pretty reasonable, although they could’ve made a prepackaged version with composer dependencies.
This would have been great. I've been tackling composer for a long time on a windows installation. Meanwhile something like PHP-my-admin has zero problems with releasing with dependencies in tack
Re: Monica – Personal CRM, Remember everything about friends and family
#50I would like to use this product but it feels irresponsible to do so. Why are we still making technology that stores such personal information without data being encrypted end-2-end?
1. Do you want to be able to search your data? Full encryption would make it impossible.
2. This is why it's open source. If you need full privacy, download it and run it yourself.