Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and family

Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by microcolonel on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:26PM (#14499729)

The first thing I looked for was data export and import. I have an export from google contacts I'd like to import to get started quickly. I would also like to know that I can get my data out to use in other applications (a table for the activity logs joined on the relationship's ID, a table for the relationships, etc.).

The "Edit" link under "Personal Information" should also be Blue, like the "Add" links under the other sections. It took me about 40 seconds to figure that out because of the confusion.

Editing reminders would be useful. More flexible reminder timing (things like "end of the month", which could be more or less than 30 days apart, are very useful).

You should be able to select an existing Person entry for the Significant Other field. Also, if you add somebody through the Significant Other field, they should show up as a person.

You should also be able to delete a Person.

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by robinhood on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @02:58PM (#14500077)

You are right. Import is high on my roadmap [1].

Export will be next, too. It's vital to not be locked in.

Editing reminders, yeah, I didn't do it at first because it's way less trivial that it might look, but it's in my todo as well ;-)

Thanks for all your ideas, they all make a lot of sense.

[1]: https://github.com/monicahq/monica/projects/1

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by confounded on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @04:43PM (#14501145)

Please consider supporting Carddav as much as is sensible! It's the existing open standard.

I spent an unreal amount of time gardening my list after tearing myself away from Gmail and Facebook.

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by nbm on Tuesday June 06, 2017 @05:43PM (#14501664)

Separate from non-lock-in reasons, I'd consider using the hosted version if I could export data at a later time so I could go self-hosted in the future (say, if I start writing some code for it and there's no API that does what I want).

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Re:Show HN: Monica, an open-source CRM to manage friends and... by sksareen1 on Thursday June 08, 2017 @04:53PM (#14517111)

Same here - especially for export. I'm hesitant about pouring in hours and data into this if it's locked in one place unable to be pulled or migrated.

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