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Six ways of storing business cards laid out on a desk: a drawer, a binder, a phone, a laptop and two loose stacks
Business Cards

How To Organize Business Cards: 6 Methods Compared

How to organize business cards, six methods scored on two tests: can you still place the person months later, and does anything raise them without you asking.

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Business Cards

How To Digitize Business Cards (And Why Most Methods Fail)

How to digitize business cards, measured on my own system: 7 taps, 5 extracted fields, 15-20 seconds. Extraction is the easy part. Here is where it breaks.

A phone contacts list scrolled to a run of unplaceable entries, shown as a phone screen inside a dark editorial cover frame
Personal CRM

Personal CRM vs Your Phone's Contacts App

A contacts app stores identifiers so a call connects. A personal CRM stores context so you remember why someone mattered. The difference, field by field.

Cartoon illustration of an abandoned contact spreadsheet showing frequent activity followed by a long period of inactivity.
Personal CRM

Personal CRM vs Spreadsheet vs Notion Template

Is a spreadsheet good enough for managing contacts? On features, yes — it beats most apps. The argument is about maintenance, and mine died. Here's why.

A single blank business card alone in the centre of a large empty dark desk
Personal CRM

CRM For Individuals, Not Sales Teams

Is there a CRM for individuals rather than sales teams? Yes. Here's why sales CRMs fail for personal use, and the one reason nobody talks about.