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Ask HN: Would you use an app to keep track of all your relationships?

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Can you clarify what aspect of the relationship you intend on tracking ?

If it is going to be a "how frequently do I stay in touch with X", I might consider it since it will be nice to get an automated reminder to text/call this person.

That will be one of the key features I'm looking at.

The most basic could be birthdays but also about just keeping in touch with people who haven't spoken with in awhile.

This is exactly the reason I created https://touchingbase.io for.

FYI, your blog is broken: http://blog.touchingbase.io/. I get a "Error establishing a database connection" message when trying to visit that URL.

Nice. How's the response been for the product?

I would use an app to store/download information about my contacts and then quiz me about such questions as:

- What is the name that goes with this face?

- What are some of the interests or conversation topics that this person enjoys?

- What topics should I avoid mentioning around this person?

In a way, helping you try to remember things about your contact?

I absolutely would but I haven't seen one good enough that is easy to use and lets me own my data. So it's just markdown files for now. Marcus Vorwaller has some good insight into why things are currently lacking and what features are important in personal knowledgebases: http://marcusvorwaller.com/blog/2015/12/14/personal-knowledg...

Has there been anything that comes close to being easy to use? Would the point about owning your data mean you'd stay away from any cloud-based app?

Thanks for the link. I'll check it out.

[EDIT: Checked out link] Great ideas and thoughts. I agree with some of the features myself.

I already do. In Workflowy, I have a section dedicated to people I've met that I work on chronologically. If they're ~really~ special they even make it into my daily diary. Basically I write their name, profession/gig/along with where I met them and maybe a little quip or fact they dropped. It works wonders for networking and building a repertoire with people.

I am fairly social, but I have a big problem with remembering names. This alleviates a lot of this, and I've found that people genuinely appreciate when you remember what they tell you.

Nice. I'd love to learn more about your process.

Also, what made you felt like you had to do this?

It already exists:

https://github.com/JacobEvelyn/friends

Do you use this? I'm not following why you would want to track your free time in this way.

Thanks. Really interesting implementation

I built an iOS app to tackle this issue: https://itunes.apple.com/tc/app/butter-contacts-reminders/id...

Id use an app that helps me build few quality relationships. Facebook, Linked or others with thousands of followers are not for me.

How do you envision an app would help you to build quality relationships?

Yes, if it did it all in the background like a good butler and then politely reminded me when I was lagging.

That's the vision!

No, but note that CRMs are widely used.

Not really, no

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