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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 joe3774 »

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. ;)

there is a "notes" field on the samsung contacts, should be good enough.

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

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Post by programmarchy »

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. ;)

I'm on iOS 14, and "+ add related name" lets you add any relationship. I think that's been there for awhile.

For something like gifts, I'd probably just use the Notes field, or create that topic in the Notes app.

It's no Salesforce... but it seems to cover all the bases for personal relationships.

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

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Post by tasogare »

dzhiurgis wrote: post #23

So what can you do and can't using iOS and it's contacts, reminders, calendars, etc? It's like - I don't want a TODO app when I can create simple Note with checkboxes.

Yep, my PRM is an iOS Notes folder called People, with a note for some people I want to remember facts about. In particular what some like so I can use the list to make gifts. There is also a "debts" notes. I’ve been using this system for a few years and it works well.

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

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Post by vonseel »

hisnameisjimmy wrote: post #50
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 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.

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

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Post by neolog »

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…

That was Google+

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Post by lars512 »

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…

Sometimes it’s hard to be the kind of person we want to be for people we really care about.

One way of showing you care is making the effort to remember important things. Another is staying in contact. I’ve used Anki to remember friends kids names, and Monica to remind me to stay in touch. Very occasionally, I use Monica to remember where a friend is in their life last we spoke. Often a tiny cue is enough to jog your memory.

You might consider that “unauthentic”, but I would say people’s brains and memories are just really different —- what’s easy for you is not necessarily easy for everyone else. Using these tools let’s me be closer to the type of friend, brother, son that I’d like to be.

I should add, having moved overseas, Monica has also helped me maintain relationships with people who are very important to me, but who I may only get the chance to speak to every few weeks, or less. I’m quite grateful for it.

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

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Post by chrismorgan »

neolog wrote: post #65
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…

That was Google+

And they even called it circles.

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

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Post by rrevo »

Monica looks great. I had the same pain point and built Bardun (https://www.bardunapp.com/) as a iOS app instead of a website. Bardun brings together freeform notes and contacts to capture relationship information.

For privacy, the app stores information locally on-device only. Sync of contacts via phone, Google mail or calendar is possible. Contact information is streamed to the device rather than stored on a server.

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

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Post by productceo »

vzaliva wrote: post #18
productceo wrote: post #14

https://getdex.com/blog/personal-crm-in-2020-20-startups-app... This is an organized list and comparison of Personal CRMs.

Check the links in your blog posts. Some are broken. E.g. ZooWho.

Not mine. It is written by this YC company called Dex.

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

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Post by dyeje »

wegs2 wrote: post #22

I'd totally pay for something like this, but not $90/year. I'd pay $90 per year for an all-in-one-service to replace Google, but with open source and privacy. It seems like a tough business model, to try to sell a one-off utility like this. Over a 50 year lifetime, that's $4,500. It feels like in the eighties, I'd pay $20 (which is $40 in today's dollars) for a shareware tool, and it'd do this for the rest of my life…

You can host it yourself for free.
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