feat: Interests, Preferences

[boehs]

Forgive me, this sort of thing is very loosely defined. The Activity feature in Monica was excellent for remembering past events. Sometimes though, I want to track something a bit less concrete.

For instance: John tells me he loves playing hockey. How do I record that so next time I meet up with him I say something about it? I feel like notes are too freeform and activities too constrained.

That begs the question of "How deep should it go". Lets say I specifically know John loves the Montreal Canadiens. Is that a better fit for notes or "Interests"?

Could tie nicely with #341. Who do I know who likes "Hockey"?

[djaiss]

Thanks for your feedback.

Right now, Chandler is missing the life events. Life events will replace the old activities feature which was limited. It'll be much more flexible here. But I agree, this doesn't necessarily represent what you mean by interests.

What is an interest then and more importantly, how would we represent it? Is it a set of short sentence that we pin at the top of someone's profile?

[boehs]

What is an interest then and more importantly, how would we represent it? Is it a set of short sentence that we pin at the top of someone's profile?

Here are things I might be wanting to track about a person

• Our past interactions
  • Emotions, what happened, etc
• Life events (and reminders about them ofc)
• Their preferences

And the preferences part is what I think could be fleshed out. Certain categories of preferences I can think of:

• Food
• Hobbies
  • John likes
    • Hockey
      • Montreal Canadiens
      • Pickup Games
    • Plays
      • Link to past event: Watched Hamilton. He felt x about it
• Places
  • "The beach"
  • NOT "Mountains"

It's good to know and index the things people like that they told you in passing, or that you learned from experience. I think of "Activities" as being chronological, while preferences are filled in as needed. They can work together — that is — activities can feed into preferences.

For example:

• when we went to get dinner (activity)
• he seemed disappointed by the restaurant and noted he prefers seafood (preference)
• so now I can quickly see "food preferences" and know to pick a place with seafood next time we meet, instead of digging through activities

I don't really have a concrete idea of how to represent it, I'm still thinking about it and wanted to put it out there.