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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 ksun »

mead5432 wrote: post #34
productceo wrote: post #5

I was excited by the vision of Dex (a YC company), but its sign up process is so full of friction, I had to look for other Personal CRM solutions.

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.

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

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Post by terpimost »

tomgs wrote: post #79

I have to mention that this is one of the top 3 tools in my personal stack. See some comments below regarding various things I saw in this thread. Stability: Been running it for 2+ years now (or is it 3+ already?), no problems whatsoever. I update when the mood strikes - never had to roll back because something wasn't working. Why: As someone who considers himself terrible at remembering things, this little piece of…

I wonder what are another 2 tools in your stack?

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

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Post by bkanber »

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...

How do you feel about desktop apps that sync to google drive? I just made scrumsheet.app and a friend mentioned that I should do the same for a personal CRM. Do you trust Google with the data or do you really prefer it to be offline-only?

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

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Post by hysan »

cweagans wrote: post #75
hysan wrote: post #31

Have they implemented CardDAV support yet? I’d definitely add it to my self-hosted stack, but I don’t want to be stuck updating contact info in two places.

Yes! They also added CalDAV for birthdays and tasks. https://github.com/monicahq/monica/blob/master/docs/user/car...

That’s great to hear. Checking that page, I see that the sections for iOS is empty. Doing a quick search shows some iOS/Apple specific issues. Any idea if the CardDAV (and now CalDAV) implementations work with Contacts on Apple devices?

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

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Post by sneak »

A hearty chuckle here:

> We are like you, and this is why we are on GitHub: we hate big corporations that do not have at heart the best interest at heart for their users, even if they say otherwise.

That's definitely what I think of when I think Microsoft!

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

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Post by sneak »

vonseel wrote: post #64
hisnameisjimmy wrote: post #50

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Not everyone has a good memory, even if they care a lot about people.

I once had a girlfriend I cared about tremendously. She was, and is, amazing. Her birthday, she told me, was the 7th of December. I didn't save it, because how could I forget? It's a day that will live in infamy! It's also don Vito Corleone's birthday!

It's proper infamous now: my forgetting it in no small part contributed to our breakup.

Some people just have bad memories.

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

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Post by brnt »

bkanber wrote: post #83
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...

How do you feel about desktop apps that sync to google drive? I just made scrumsheet.app and a friend mentioned that I should do the same for a personal CRM. Do you trust Google with the data or do you really prefer it to be offline-only?

Software or apps including their own cloudsync are a layering violation. I already have tools to sync my filesystem, just make sure your software writes to a logical location on disk and tools already used will sync.

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

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Post by brnt »

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 forget my own birthday.

You and others probably have a much better memory than I.

I don't use tools though, we have a physical birthday calendar that helps.

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

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Post by mszcz »

I tried it some time ago and liked it. Self hosted aspect is a big plus for me.

However, I've since stopped using it because the upgrades did fuck it up more than once I think and it was too slow to add information, too much friction.

I've since started using markdown files edited in Sublime and synced over Dropbox. Quick, no maintenance overhead.

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