[zwayhowder]

I ran Monica for a year when I worked in a Big4. Technically not the use case, but quite handy.

However, I was never able to successfully upgrade it (circa 2018) and therefore moved on to another option because I needed features unavailable and the effort of migrating my data to a new instance was more than the effort of going elsewhere.

Might be time for me to revisit as it looks to have come a long way.

[scrollaway]

Monica not being able to sync (two-way) with something as basic as Google Contacts is a dealbreaker imo.

I was ready to pay for it to actually be my source of truth for my contacts database, and store a lot more metadata that I'm currently trying to hack into custom Google Contacts fields (profiles on other sites/services primarily).

True wishlist: A PRM like Monica, which can sync two-ways with Google Contacts / carddav, and which is able to fetch & search through communication history with all linked services for the contact (not just emails but also SMS, DMs in various services, public posts on fb/twitter etc). This could naturally evolve into a multi-messaging tool like the old libpurple based ones (Pidgin etc).

Also, please, if you do a contact manager, let me store humans and businesses as separate contact types. My relationship with "Ada L." is very different to my relationship with "Amazon Business Customer Support Phone Number".

[unixhero]

That's nice and well thought out. You have to commit this as a feature request to the github repository of monicaprm. Remember to use a user story format.

[zwayhowder]

All this times 100.

[forgotmypw17]

Do you know what format the data is stored in, and if it is human-readable?

[alejojo]

moved to?

[zwayhowder]

I currently pay for Cloze.com it's not perfect but is cheap enough for one person and syncs my email, contacts and calendar.