Thoughts from someone who built an app because she couldn't find the right one.
Two weeks home a year and a friend group too big to fit into them. A confession about sorting friends by who's overdue to see, and how I ended up building a friend tracker to do the sorting for me.
BuddyLog, Dex, Mesh (formerly Clay), UpHabit, and Cloze all promise to help you remember people. An honest, fact-checked comparison of what each one actually does, costs, and who it's built for.
A high school joke about who made the "top 10 most important people" list became our friend group's longest-running bit. Why inside jokes, and how often you actually see your closest friends, are both worth tracking as adults.
Friend log, friendship log, buddy log, friend tracker, friendship tracker, friend sorting app, friendship journal: people search for this app category under a handful of different names. Here's what each term actually means.
From baby books to scrapbooks to friendship journals — why humans have always kept records of the people we love, and what happens when life gets too busy to keep doing it alone.
Dex is a personal CRM. BuddyLog is a friendship journal. Neither is trying to do what the other does. Here's an honest look at where each one actually earns its keep.
Explaining a personal relationship manager to your closest friends is harder than it sounds. First comes the look. Then the questions. Then the suggestions you weren't entirely prepared for.
A book gave me a small idea. Living abroad made it urgent. Years of failed workarounds convinced me to build something myself.