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I think this is a step towards making relationship management more convenient and natural.

The feature is a part of the Knei app, a tool to build relationships thoughtfully.

Disclaimer: the link contains the demo login-free page. To actually create contacts and notes, you will have to sign up.

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The article might have turned out a bit text-heavy. The blog format is being tailored (always), so your feedback would be very valuable.

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This layout spatially communicates information about many relationships. It is formed of columns representing contacts' groups. The column contains people's cards. Every card moves within the column from left to right as time goes by. Hence, people you haven’t talked to for a while will move to the right border of the column.

That configuration visually represents 3 properties: a) Different groups — in columns b) Days since the last talk — x coordinate within the column c) Sorting by custom characteristic — y coordinate within the column

That way, you can assess a lot of relationships in a glimpse.

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My wondering is that these companies already have a messaging platform and attempt to cover an absolute majority of connections. So, it must be super easy to implement something like structured talk history.

Actually, I'm building the one, but this is another topic, I suppose.

Thanks for the hack. "Tasks to touch" sound interesting.

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Also, resorting to default note-taking functionality is probably a matter of a value understanding: people don't see how managing these relationships with a specific solution can benefit them.

Could a personal CRM be considered a tarpit idea? From the first look, the problem of relationship building sounds common and relatable, that's an attractive component. But a very small share of people are actually willing to regularly keep notes about their connections. That makes the real audience much smaller.

I am curious to know your opinion of personal CRM viability. Is it tricky to make a good product and business from?

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Few clarifications: - we can ask the user to synchronize/log in to their Ig account, the process doesn't have to be anonymous; - we don't have to listen every profile by default: it's fine setting the listening for particular social handles;

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Every product or service has an impact externality depending on what it can be applied for. A person using the product can decrease or increase well-being of parts of the society. It may happen unintentionally (by design) or on purpose, if the person is aware of the impact they make.

Depending on what effect dominates overall, we can roughly define three types of products by the social impact sign.

The first type are products with a negative externality. Using a product for its default purpose makes public living worse overall. For example, drugs, WMD.

The second, products with a neutral externality. The majority of FMCG can be included: a product itself is "not good" or "bad" but is able benefit good or bad actors regardless.

Third, the products with a positive externality. The ones, that increase the common good just by design.

As a special case, there are universal positive externality products. Those cannot be used to harm any social group (i.e. very unlikely or useless for such a goal) and increase the public good the more people use them.

And there are all kinds of in-betweens on this spectrum.

How do you think, are there products with universal positive externality? What are they?

I operate the terms "good" and "bad". It might be an oversimplification. You can apply your understanding of what is generally good or bad for people.

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1) It's not clear for me how color segmentation groups were picked in the first place. Are they mutually exclusive?

2) Would be great to make this interactive. There is a substantial cognitive effort to imagine these methods from the name of few words (good exercise but come on).

Please, have a try of Android app and share what you think.

Also would love to hear your opinion on the concept of audio feed in general. I'm looking forward to implement complete audio feed with different channels and recommendations. Why is there no/not much such products among popular?

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