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I’ve been thinking about this problem for a little while, and it blows my mind that this is still a largely unsolved problem. We could be doing so much better w
by robcohen 4y ago
I’ve been thinking about this problem for a little while, and it blows my mind that this is still a largely unsolved problem. We could be doing so much better with contact management:
- present it more beautifully, and easier to categorize contacts (people I haven’t talked to in 3 months, people I went to college with, etc)
- Pull data from multiple sources, email, social media, and databases to keep the contact updated automatically. Make suggestions
- do the above with a plug-in infrastructure so modules can be made for any service.
- non destructive editing, with history.
- add a social component, remind me to contact people.
- present reports on who I contact, use AI in my text messages and emails to determine what kind of relationship I have.
On and on. Instead I have google contacts, which is like 5-10 minute to update a stale contact and ensure the fields are correct.
Seriously? This is the best we can come up with?
I’ve tried Monica, and frankly it isn’t good. It doesn’t solve any problem that isn’t solved by the default contact app on my phone.
I might try to fix this by building a solution to this, I don’t even think it would be that hard to do.
Also DIDs, or some kind of decentralized keybase system would be nice.