What does HackerNews think of chandler?

The upcoming brand new version of Monica. Not suitable for production use at the moment.

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Author of Monica/Chandler here. Thanks for posting this. As others have pointed out, we are rewriting Monica from scratch, codename Chandler: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler

We've also written OfficeLife, an open source tool to manage your employees: https://github.com/officelifehq/officelife, yet to be released.

I think we have too many ideas and side projects :-)

The authors are rewriting this software under a new name. https://github.com/monicahq/chandler
There was this notion of a mobile app for a minute there - https://github.com/monicahq/chandler - which I think might've been super duper awesome, but open source is hard.

I would 100% use that over the desktop app if it was stable.

Re automated / scripted vs. manual - manual all the way. I keep on mentioning to folks this study I read years ago about teachers who had a student tracking system in their school.

The key point from the study was that the teachers who found the system useful are not the ones who got the most detailed or relevant reports, but the ones who actually INTERACTED with the tracking process. Some sort of "obligation" feeling or something drove them to look at the data and then utilize the learnings from it, IIRC.

If anyone remembers such a study I'd be happy to get a link to it.

Ah. Memory served me well, although it got the timeline wrong: https://github.com/monicahq/chandler It has been deprecated

App is needed to avoid copypasta and inconveniences