Marissa Mayer’s Next Act Is Here

Personal CRMs like this don't seem like a huge market.

=== At the risk of sounding like a shill, how I have all the functionality described in the article:

(I assume android users already have the functionality described in this article as they only support gmail)

On the iphone, the contacts app automatically scans for phone numbers, mail addresses etc in your mail and messages (I get a message from an unknown number and messages says it thinks it's from "foo" as an email from "foo" included that number in its signature block). I hope the M1 means that this kind of functionality will migrate back to the Mac soon.

And on the Mac I use BusyContacts which aggregates the info for a given person X into a single address book entry. It connects to a bunch of address book services (unfortunately LinkedIn and FB seem removed their APIs a couple of years ago). When you look at someone's card you also see recent messages and email from them in a sidebar.

I am the only person I know of who has bothered to add a third party contacts manager, not that this is the kind of issue that comes up in conversation.

If this is the case, I’ll keep searching on for one because ... privacy.

Heck, I don’t even let Signal app touch my contact address book either.

So, a lot of people have disorganized contacts, but they get by with it just fine?

Feels true for me. I wish I could organize my contacts, but I dont think I will pay for it, or even use a free app.

This product feels like a meh proposition.

Interesting to see if they can somehow make the digital contact book relevant again.