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Bethany Crystal's avatar

“Make a folder for everything in my life” is the new personal CRM for 2025, thanks for sharing your approach

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Ben Tossell's avatar

hahahahaha folders and docs are the new personal crm

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James Pember's avatar

i wrote about this the other day, as i've also noticed myself recently gravitating away from "cloud collab" software that has dominated the last decade, and back to files and my local machine. very interesting, i like this "personal os" framing.

https://jamespember.substack.com/p/ai-and-the-return-of-the-file-system

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Ben Tossell's avatar

yeh although i definitely want some cloud (or cloud-like) capability like working with my system when im mobile

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James Pember's avatar

Yep. I’ve been using Git a lot more recently, like having a repo be the source of truth. But yeah, docs and sheets still have their place, of course.

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Sven Arnarsson's avatar

This is very intriguing, please consider doing a tutorial in which you reiterate on your "Ben OS".

I have been trying to do something similiar, but still in the early stages, and mostly seen its usefulness in sorting and renaming folders atm.

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