Monica is a personal relationship management system.

Monica is an open source Web application for organizing and recording your interactions with loved ones. We call this PRM or Personal Relationship management. Think of it as your friend’s or family’s CRM (a popular tool used by sales teams in the corporate world).

Monica allows people to track all important information about their friends and family. Enjoy activities with them. When you last called someone and what you talked about. It will help you remember their children’s names and ages. It can also remind you to call someone you haven’t spoken to in a while.

Item features

• Add and manage contacts
• Define relationships between contacts
• Automatic birthday reminder
• Keep in touch with contacts by sending reminders ata given interval
• Debt management
• Able to add comments to contacts
• Keep track of how you know someone
• and contact management activities
• Task management
• Gift management and gift creation
• Address management and all the different ways to contact someone
• Management of contact field types
• Manage a contact’s pets
• Basic journals
• To track how your day goes
• Upload files and photos
• data export and import
• Export the contact as a vCard
• Ability to define custom gender
• Able to define custom activity types
• Track conversations on social media or text messages
• multiple users
• Tag for organizing contacts
• API that covers most of the data

Start using

There are several ways to get started with Monica:

1 You can use our hosted version. This is the easiest way to use Monica.

https://monicahq.com/

2 You can follow the installation instructions here to install it on your own server. If you install Monica on your own server, there are no restrictions.

• The downloadable version will always be the most complete version – the same as provided in the paid plan for the hosted version.
• Self-hosting will always be completely free, with no strings attached, and you will be in full control.

Install Monica (generic)

If you don’t want to use Docker, the best way to set up your project is to use the same configuration that Homestead uses. Basically, Monica depends on the following:

• Git
• PHP 7.4+
• Composer
• MySQL
• Optional: Redis or Beanstalk

Install Monica on Docker

You can pull or build and run the Monica image using docker and docker-compose, equipped with a standalone MySQL database. It has nice features, you don’t have to install a lot of software directly on your system, and you can get up and running quickly in a known working environment.

Run container:

mysqlCid="$(docker run -d \
-e MYSQL_RANDOM_ROOT_PASSWORD=true \
-e MYSQL_DATABASE=monica \
-e MYSQL_USER=homestead \
-e MYSQL_PASSWORD=secret \
Mysql: 5.7) "< / span >
docker run -d \
--link "$mysqlCid":mysql \
-e DB_HOST=mysql \
-p 8080:80 \
monica

Install Monica on Heroku

Before deployment, Heroku will ask you to define some variables.

• Make sure that APP_KEY inputs custom content when asked (for example, you can copy and paste the output echo -n ‘base64:’; openssl rand-base64 32).
• In addition, You can edit the email address to which Monica will send the email (MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS), the sender’s name (MAIL_FROM_NAME), where the email should link to (APP_URL), and some other important variables on that screen.
• After deployment, click manage app to open the dashboard of the new application

Click the Heroku scheduler to open the scheduler dashboard. Create a new job and define a new job to run this command every 10 minutes or every 00 minutes:

php artisan schedule:run

architecture

All API access is over HTTPS and from
Visit https://app.monicahq.com/api URL. All data is sent and received in JSON format.

If you do have a custom instance of Monica, replace the above URL with the URL of your instance. The endpoint will always be YOUR_URL/api.

Server:  nginx / 1.11.9 < / span >
Content-Type: application/json
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: keep-alive
Cache-Control: no-cache, private
Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2017 02:24:19 GMT
X-RateLimit-Limit: 60
X-RateLimit-Remaining: 58

All timestamps are returned in ISO 8601 format:

YYYY-MM-DDTHH:MM:SSZ

principle

• It should help build a better relationship.
• It should be easy to use, easy to contribute, easy to understand, and extremely easy to maintain.
• It’s not a social network, and it never will be.
• It is not and never will be supported by advertising.
• The user is not and never will be tracked.
• It should be transparent.
• It should be open source.
• It’s supposed to do one thing really well (record social interactions) and that’s it.
• It should be well documented.

Example plot

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Open source License: AGPL-3.0