Personal CRM
The contact book that makes improving your friendships easy.
Capture everyone you meet, log every interaction, track gifts and life events, never miss a follow-up. Connects to any of your systems and ai agents.
Built by
We are Julia and Finn, the Co-Founders of Contact Book. We answer the support email ourselves, and ship with our small team.
Contact Book is built and run from Germany. We do not sell to enterprise on the side, we do not have a sales team to escape from, and we do not call anyone who did not ask first.
Everything in one place
The contact book that does what an address book never did.
One record per person. Profiles, the relationship graph, the timeline, life events, gifts, follow-ups, and a journal - all live, all yours, all on the same screen.
Rich profiles
Names, emails, phones, companies, addresses, birthdays, social links, food prefs, allergies, how you met - all on one record.
Relationships graph
Link contacts as partner, parent, sibling, colleague, mentor. Edits on one side mirror on the other automatically.
Timeline per contact
Notes plus a structured activity log: meetings, calls, emails, events.
Life events
Birthdays, anniversaries, job changes, moves, milestones - tag them yearly and the dashboard surfaces what's next.
Gifts tracker
Capture gift ideas, mark when given, log what you received. With occasion + date.
Reminders & follow-ups
Tasks bound to a person with a due date. The dashboard shows what's open.
Personal journal
Tag entries with mood + tags - skim them on the journal page.
Live across tabs
Edits stream over WebSocket in milliseconds.
Owner-scoped at the DB
Your CRM is yours - never visible across accounts.
Your people, kept where you can find them.
Parents, freelancers, volunteers - the people who use Contact Book describe what changed for them.
"My kid's class list, my mum's birthday list, plumbers I trust - all in one place. Nothing leaves my account."
"I keep my lead list and my friends here side by side without mixing them up. The owner-scoping is invisible but it is the whole point."
"I tried five 'CRMs for individuals'. This is the first one that does not try to sell my data to a third-party agency."
Read next
Going deeper on what Contact Book is for
Hand-picked deep dives, definitions, and opinion pieces from the people who built this. No comparisons, no pricing - just the thinking behind the product.
Keeping a relationship log without being creepy
Where the line is between caring enough to remember and keeping a dossier - and how to stay on the right side.
AI agents as relationship copilots: useful, careful, ours
A small product surface that's safe to give an agent, plus the line we don't cross.
The etiquette of the follow-up: persistent without being a pest
When to follow up, how often, and the line between persistent and annoying.
How to remember everyone you meet at a conference
A practical capture-and-follow-up system for conferences, without becoming the person who scans badges.
How private is your contact data, really?
What 'cloud-synced' means for your contact list, and how to lock it back down.
Turning business cards into a system you'll actually use
A practical workflow for processing business cards into real, followed-up-with contacts.
Why we forget the people who matter most
A short read on the mechanics of relational drift - and the smallest fix that actually works.
How to remember names (and what to do when you've already forgotten)
Why names slip, the techniques that stick, and the graceful recovery.
The ping cadence: how often to reach out, by relationship tier
A practical, tiered model for how often to reach out - without making it feel mechanical.
Dunbar's number and the modern network: where the cracks show
What Dunbar's research actually says, what's misremembered, and how it shapes a personal CRM.
The strength of weak ties: the network that quietly carries you
Why your weak ties matter more than your inner circle - and how to keep them alive without faking it.
Family graphs vs genealogy: mapping people you actually talk to
What a relationship-first family map looks like - and where it should stop.
Personal CRM vs sales CRM: a clarification
Why a HubSpot doesn't work for friendships and a Personal CRM doesn't work for deal flow.
The friendship recession: why people have fewer close friends, and what to do about it
The documented decline in close friendships, and the concrete individual fix.
Your inbox is not a CRM (and why it feels like one)
Why "I'll just search Gmail" stops working - and the thin layer of structure that fixes it.
Reconnecting after silence: how to message someone after years
What to write to someone you haven't spoken to in years - and what to skip.
Relationship debt: the silent backlog you didn't know you had
How to spot relational debt and pay it off in five-minute sessions.
What is a personal CRM, really?
Definition + the test that tells you if you need one.
Networking for introverts: depth over volume, energy over hustle
A quieter, lower-volume way to build a network that doesn't drain you.
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