I also developed my own version of it and launched it many years ago!
It was extremely simple on purpose, you had two views:
- List of people: sorted based on when you needed to get in touch with them
- The profile: add notes (with a contact more/less often when submitting) and choose social circles (by closeness: Family, Close Friend, Work, Acquaintance... or by situation: Golf Club, Gym, Chess...)
Based on the circles, notes, ratings, etc. the App organized them from top to bottom on a "Who should you contact now". It was cool.
As I grew older I used it less and less and ended up retiring it. It helped me become a better person by internalizing the importance of remembering names, hobbies, FORD method (Family, Occupation, Recreation and Dreams) and improving my small talk or breaking the ice.
If you've never used a personal CRM and you struggle to maintain and nourish relationships I highly recommend you to try something, either Monica or what someone suggested of having text files, a spreadsheet, notes...
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.
that requires a bit of effort, so i haven't had a need to. what would be the motivation to do so?
i would be curious if there's enough interest to make it into a service though. it would be a webapp/cli that manages the dossier in your google contacts notes (so automatically syncted with all your data natively).
It was extremely simple on purpose, you had two views:
- List of people: sorted based on when you needed to get in touch with them
- The profile: add notes (with a contact more/less often when submitting) and choose social circles (by closeness: Family, Close Friend, Work, Acquaintance... or by situation: Golf Club, Gym, Chess...)
Based on the circles, notes, ratings, etc. the App organized them from top to bottom on a "Who should you contact now". It was cool.
As I grew older I used it less and less and ended up retiring it. It helped me become a better person by internalizing the importance of remembering names, hobbies, FORD method (Family, Occupation, Recreation and Dreams) and improving my small talk or breaking the ice.
If you've never used a personal CRM and you struggle to maintain and nourish relationships I highly recommend you to try something, either Monica or what someone suggested of having text files, a spreadsheet, notes...