/contacts

Manage google and linked in contacts in one place.

Primary LanguagePython

Contacts

Goal: Scripts that allow for importing contact information from LinkedIN and Google Contacts and then exporting them to google contacts, tools for keeping notes and keeping track of whether a contact will remember me. Need to trim contacts that wouldn't remember me. They are no longer functional.

Requirements

  • Keep track of hundreds of contacts
  • Facilitate development of those relationships
  • Stay top of mind

Constraints

  • Limited memory
  • Limited access to notes when talking to someone
  • poor interfaces in contact management tools

Design

  • Use Google Contacts as front-end UI
    • Simple
    • Already on phone
    • no permissions required
    • searchable
    • labels for networks
  • Use LinkedIN to get most up-to-date employment information occational run script to bring this information in
  • Use LinkedIN to grab contact information for contacts I haven't added to Google Contacts
  • Keep track of other knowledge in notes

Need to know

  • Will this contact remember me?
  • What are my goals for this contact?
  • When did I last contact this person?
  • What did we talk about then?
  • What do I know about this person?
    • Strengths, weaknesses, interests, aspirations, things they like, how they think

TODO

  • parse LinkedIn CSV or integrate with LinkedIN API
  • parse Google Contacts CSV or integrate with Google API
    • will need to integrate with API to upload updated information