Is anyone using this CRM? How have you benefitted from it in your personal life?
So far I haven't been able to bake it into some kind of 'visit friends workflow'. And also I get this bad vibe from consulting-managing my personal relationships, it feels cold, cynical and controlling. It's not who I am. However it's not this apps' fault, but the feeling I get from trying to apply it and get some value out of putting effort into tracking personal relationships.
On the other hand I think I have to face the fact that I am just not good at remembering a lot of tiny details - especially about people I have only met a few times or don't see very frequently.
I think remembering stuff about a bunch of people is possible but when you interact with a lot it becomes more and more difficult to remember everything.
Of course one could argue that in this case you maybe should "sort out" your relationships to determine who of all these people is really important to you but that feels even harder for me than using a personal CRM to have a good relationship to people that are not part of my circle of best friends.
Family is another example. I didn't choose them but I have to see them once in a while and among other features recording what presents I got them and they got me would be good enough to at least not blow up some celebration because I would get the same present again or being able to connect presents to people who gave them.
pros:
- The no-cost self-hosted setup was easy enough. I didn't have to jump through too many installation-debugging-hoops
- Could easily customize the UI with minimal CSS edits
- The app was pretty responsive in my view, and my view is that web apps are known for clunkiness
- All the things you could do within the app were pretty obvious from the interface ("no manual required")
cons:
- Honestly, the thing that killed it for me was being required to select Male or Female for every person entered. It was ridiculous, so they probably have removed any sex/gender field by now, right?
- To my knowledge it only had a web interface, so I couldn't open up and edit the data in a text editor (personal preference), for instance