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Every couple of days I scroll through my text history to the bottom and see if there's anyone there I'd like to talk to. I call it "The Poor Man's CRM"
by bgroat 5y ago
Every couple of days I scroll through my text history to the bottom and see if there's anyone there I'd like to talk to.
I call it "The Poor Man's CRM"
- arisAlexis 5y agoSometimes I browse my fb friend list and start sending out messages
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoI 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 ...
- bgroat 5y agoSounds like the Rich Man's CRM to me
- awiesenhofer 5y agoOne can only dream, but some kind of Adium/Trillian for social media would be amazing.
- 58x14 5y agoHey, 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 :(
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoGood 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.
- manmal 5y agoBeeper is essentially that. I’ve been using it for a few months and it’s surprisingly usable already.
- Jeff_Brown 5y agoNice! 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?
- CamelRocketFish 5y agoHow did you get access to it? It seems there’s a wait list.
- a-dub 5y agoit'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.
- kevmo314 5y agoThe other way to look at it is you value your relationships enough that you want to invest more into growing them.
- a-dub 5y agoperhaps, i generally invest a great deal of time there anyhow; but maybe at high cost to my own endeavors.
- bgroat 5y agoThis 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?"