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Show HN: Votre (Beta) – A diary to manage your friends and family

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9 pointsEmilBruckner6 comments

So, I've been building a knowledge base (writing my own software for it as well), and this brings up an interesting question for me.

How do you (anyone) all feel Diaries help in personal knowledge?

Eg, I like the idea of keeping an informational log of each day - but I'm unsure what use can be obtained from it. Is there something inherent to a Diary that is better than, say, just adding some birthday information to "Becky"'s information in some type of personal knowledge base?

The best I can figure is that writing helps memory - but part of my knowledge base is being written with spaced repetition quizzing, so writing it into a knowledge base, vs a diary, seems just as effective.

To be clear, I'm just seeking discussion in this scope - I appreciate all attempts to build tools for our daily brains. I'm very interested in this landscape! Thank you for your work :)

Interesting question, thanks for seeking discussion

You're right, writing helps memory

The thing I tried to accomplish with Votre is a tool that allows you to keep your data in whichever form you want. If it were just about keeping birthdates, use some sort of database like your contacts.

You can also treat Votre like a personal knowledge base without thinking in terms of a diary.

I just wanted something that doesn't feel like a database, where I could just start writing to add information, instead of adding a field to some entry. The diary aspect also helps with building a habit in my opinion.

Building a habit of adding information is probably the most important part of having some external brain / knowledge base, as that is the only way to ensure you can trust your system.

Hi there

I built a Personal Relationship Manager and would love some feedback.

You can reach me at emil@votre.me

Thanks

Here's a bit more text:

Votre is a people-oriented diary or journal. You can write an entry a day and mention people in your text. Votre then organizes your writing and lets you retrieve information about any person. It's like a CRM, but for keeping people, not numbers. Text is the only input and output. No social sharing.

Hey - just to let you know that I took a look and liked the way you built it! Not really a product for me as I don't keep any diary but maybe others will find it useful! Well done & good luck!

I think that such a tool could benefit my social life, but I am definitely too lazy to write a diary. Let's see whether I will use it.

The fact that your data will be gone after the beta won't make that happen for now …

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Keep in mind that you don't have to write every day and that you can write whatever you want. Don't like sentences? Don't write any …

I'll send you an email once Votre launches ;-)

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