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Author here. Super happy with this release. It took us 18 months of working on it "side project style". Almost every night and weekends actually. It's a full rewrite of the current project, with its own advantages and disadvantages of a rewrite. I hope people who used it before and didn't like it, will give it another try this time. I hope that current users who love Monica, will love this new version even more.

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My wife and I tried to use Monica for many months in the past but had to give up because of the incredibly buggy CardDAV implementation when using iOS. Now that this has come out it seems the issue (https://github.com/monicahq/monica/issues/6175) was ignored likely because of all this work.

Have improvements been made with this in the new version?

I also switched from Monica because of this. I love the features, but no iOS syncing was too painful of a gap.

I considered paying for Monica because to get this feature. Glad I didn't, I suppose. No word from the authors that this is being addressed, and I can't seem to find any mention of CardDAV in the UI...

I just recommended this to a friend who uses a conventional CRM (Salesforce I think) as a personal CRM -- a PRM? (The "C" is no longer relevant)

Question about:

> the feature I’m most proud of is the ability to customize almost everything in Chandler: from the layout, to the modules you can enable, to the data you can enter about your life.

Was this a customer-driven product decision? Based purely on past experience, this seems like the kind of thing that PMs sometimes get very excited about, but then ends up adding a lot of complexity for both developers and users... so I am curious to hear how you thought about the tradeoff :)

This is based on the feedback we've received over the years. Basically, people want so many different things, and the only way we've found to achieve this is to let people use the software the way they want.

As a former PM I know that we should 1) avoid settings, and 2) avoid customization as much as possible because of the additional complexity, but this time, in the context of mapping your life, it should be entirely customizable.

Congratulations on the Beta and thank you for creating Monica.

It states it(Chandler) does not have Import from existing Monica yet. Just wanted to get clarity on: will it get the Import option in future?

Yes we are working on it already. But it's no trivial task so it'll take a bit of time.

Congratz! As someone who installed Monica several times, and always said "I’ll fill it with data eventually" (and often thinks how useful it would be to have it filled…), I want to use this as an opportunity to try once again. What will the upgrade path be for selfhoster for the later versions? Will there be automatic migrations until 1.0?

Congrats!

Also the name gave me a genuine chuckle

co-author here. Very happy about this new release, thank you for all beta-testing!

Want to say thanks! I really like Monica. I haven't upgraded to 4.0.0 yet (waiting for Debian bookworm to release so I can have PHP 8.1 supported).

When is the current hosted monicahq going to upgrade to chandler?

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