Specifically I want write down and browse thing I know about a person - name, photo, how we met, basic facts, likes and dislikes, important dates, when we talked last and what about, when we should talk next and what’s going to happen in their life in that time, that sort of things.
This doesn’t have to be fancy. Anything better than the yellow sticky notes I use now would be an improvement. Maybe just a list of entries, hashtags, and alerts or timeline / calendar view.
Ideally this would not hold my data hostage but would instead hold a local database that syncs across devices.
- present it more beautifully, and easier to categorize contacts (people I haven’t talked to in 3 months, people I went to college with, etc) - Pull data from multiple sources, email, social media, and databases to keep the contact updated automatically. Make suggestions - do the above with a plug-in infrastructure so modules can be made for any service. - non destructive editing, with history. - add a social component, remind me to contact people. - present reports on who I contact, use AI in my text messages and emails to determine what kind of relationship I have.
On and on. Instead I have google contacts, which is like 5-10 minute to update a stale contact and ensure the fields are correct.
Seriously? This is the best we can come up with?
I’ve tried Monica, and frankly it isn’t good. It doesn’t solve any problem that isn’t solved by the default contact app on my phone.
I might try to fix this by building a solution to this, I don’t even think it would be that hard to do.
Also DIDs, or some kind of decentralized keybase system would be nice.
All the dates you add (including custom ones) will show up on your Google Calendar automatically.
Ideally this would not hold my data hostage but would instead hold a local database that syncs across devices.
Doing it yourself via WordPress more-or-less accomplishes the same thing.