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Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by purplecats »

pests wrote: post #20

Just like David Rockerfeller's Rolodex! https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15867741 I've always wanted to create something like this myself. Glad to see someone do it.

I’m guessing more people do this, they just don’t post about it.

I made my own solution to this 6 years ago and use it to this day. my solution leverages google people api so it’s automatically synced as part of the notes field of my contacts, and I have an app in my iphone and on my desktop and a cloud interface to quickly manage and query the data.

10/10 recommend and wish it was more normalized

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by mlacks »

b0afc375b5 wrote: post #37

Not sure if this was already argued elsewhere as I understand that monica gets posted here frequently, but on the readme: > This project is for people who have hard time remembering details about other people's lives - especially the ones they care about. My argument is, if you actually cared for someone, wouldn't you take the effort to remember everything about them, rather than saving it in a social relationship da…

I think it feels MORE genuine as the user went out of their way to make sure they could recall information that is important to their contacts. Taking notes in class so you can say you remembered isn't disingenuous.

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by aejnsn »

freeone3000 wrote: post #29
aejnsn wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tooling you describe isn't relational. Furthermore, Monica has found great success in helping users with social challenges, maybe with ADHD. The workflow you describe isn't an ideal solution addressing that challenge.

I would say it's more ideal than Monica. Monica is a separate app from the ones you usually use, using a separate database, with more latency before first input, and more button presses before you can actually store anything. These are all bad features if you're trying to augment short-term memory. I'm not a fan. (Moreover, Contacts is absolutely relational, in any sense that matters. There's a Relations field. It's…

Let me know when Contacts adds the ability to add spouses and children, and previous gifts at Christmas time. ;)

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by chrysoprace »

jakecopp wrote: post #30

Just build your own with Airtable for free, and export to CSV if you want to bail out! They even have an example: https://airtable.com/templates/marketing-and-sales/exp7KcHbb...

Monica is open source, Airtable isn't.

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by austhrow743 »

b0afc375b5 wrote: post #37

Not sure if this was already argued elsewhere as I understand that monica gets posted here frequently, but on the readme: > This project is for people who have hard time remembering details about other people's lives - especially the ones they care about. My argument is, if you actually cared for someone, wouldn't you take the effort to remember everything about them, rather than saving it in a social relationship da…

I think this reads to me exactly like “if you really cared enough to get there you would just be able to run fast enough rather than use a car”.

It’s a weird equation of care and ability while at the same time taking someone seeking out a tool to better achieve X as evidence of not caring about X. One of those connections seems arbitrary to me, the other backwards.

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by galaxyLogic »

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 which they want their actual friends to see up-to-date.

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by douk »

I recently discovered UpHabit[1] which serves a very similar purpose. Looks like they have a very generous pricing offering:

Personal $0/year - Manage limited relationships - Add unlimited contacts - Contacts sync daily - Unlimited integrations - Up to 5 introductions only

[1]: https://uphabit.com/pricing/

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by movedx »

galaxyLogic wrote: post #56

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 random chumps you've met once, never or are distantly related to someone else you've met once - but I think a tiered system could quickly become something of burden on said friends :P

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by movedx »

aejnsn wrote: post #19
idsout wrote: post #17

I'd love something like this packaged as an offline only desktop app. I can't trust any third party to protect such personal data about myself and the people I care about. I suppose there's the option of self-hosting and allowing only localhost...

You can host it yourself on your own server. Or, you can run it within Docker locally. I contributed to Monica a bit and the “desktop version” was always a huge GitHub issue. That, along with an impossible “E2E” encryption issue, devoid of any understanding of RDMBS or TLS, is why I didn’t go much further with my contributions. Edit: see issues 531, and 543.

> Or, you can run it within Docker locally.

Just please make sure you're using a volume so the data is persistent. And also please keep backups in case that volume explodes.

Re: Monica: Personal CRM. Remember everything about your friends, family and etc.

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Post by movedx »

aejnsn wrote: post #53
freeone3000 wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I would say it's more ideal than Monica. Monica is a separate app from the ones you usually use, using a separate database, with more latency before first input, and more button presses before you can actually store anything. These are all bad features if you're trying to augment short-term memory. I'm not a fan. (Moreover, Contacts is absolutely relational, in any sense that matters. There's a Relations field. It's…

Let me know when Contacts adds the ability to add spouses and children, and previous gifts at Christmas time. ;)

> and previous gifts at Christmas time. ;)

I'm working on a solution for that :P

https://superwishlists.com.au - it's not open to public registration yet, but it'll get there in the next few weeks. It solves the problem you've outlined and a bit more, whilst being free in every sense.

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