I like this. I'd like it a ton if I had a single feed that would aggregate my texts, whatsapp, my various email addresses, telegram, signal, skype, zoom, facebook messenger ...

Hey, me too! I've been building something like this for awhile, but it's a side project, and thus regularly de-prioritized beneath work projects.

Also, really a lot of effort to maintain, as each platform tends to frequently push breaking changes :(

Good on you!

I can imagine -- a solid feed with reply capabilities sounds like a maintenance nightmare. But a smaller feature set could cover the queuing need described here -- something that just extracts a simple .csv file listing contacts and when they were last contacted.

Beeper is essentially that. I’ve been using it for a few months and it’s surprisingly usable already.

Nice! That covers a lot of services.

Is it only for text? Will the fact that I video-chatted someone appear in Beeper, even if I have to use a different app to video-chat? It doesn't include email, right?

How did you get access to it? It seems there’s a wait list.

Sounds like the Rich Man's CRM to me

One can only dream, but some kind of Adium/Trillian for social media would be amazing.

it's funny you say that. i've had thoughts about getting more organized like this, but then have come to realize "wait a minute, this means i'm industrializing my personal life with actual crm techniques. how do i feel about this? ick!"

but... maybe that's what you have to do when you get older, busier and more forgetful and maybe it's not icky at all, as you still maintain who goes on the lists.

The other way to look at it is you value your relationships enough that you want to invest more into growing them.

This is the stance that I take.

Most people don't know I organize my relationships. Of those that do, maybe 20% think it's icky.

"Would you rather we fell out of touch?"

perhaps, i generally invest a great deal of time there anyhow; but maybe at high cost to my own endeavors.

Sometimes I browse my fb friend list and start sending out messages