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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 201

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.

forgotmypw17 6y ago
Do you know what format the data is stored in, and if it is human-readable?
scrollaway 6y ago
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 6y ago
  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 6y ago
  All this times 100.
alejojo 6y ago
moved to?
- zwayhowder 6y ago
  I currently pay for Cloze.com it's not perfect but is cheap enough for one person and syncs my email, contacts and calendar.

forgotmypw17 6y ago

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

scrollaway 6y ago

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 6y ago
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 6y ago
All this times 100.

alejojo 6y ago

moved to?

zwayhowder 6y ago
I currently pay for Cloze.com it's not perfect but is cheap enough for one person and syncs my email, contacts and calendar.