An App to Remember Details About the People You Care About
Most contact apps stop at name and phone number. YourPond captures the little details — your friend’s dog Bear, your sister-in-law’s allergy to shellfish, your colleague’s kid Mira and her tap-dance hobby, the bottle of wine you got someone last Christmas. These are the details that make friendships feel deep. YourPond is a personal CRM and relationship mapping app that helps you organize the people in your life, track how they're all connected, and remember the details that matter.
What “the details” actually means
When we say details, we don’t mean more form fields for the sake of it. We mean the specific, human things that prove you were paying attention:
- Coffee order (oat milk latte, no sugar).
- Dietary restrictions and allergies (vegan, gluten-free, shellfish allergy).
- Pets — Bear the corgi, Ezra the cat — names, species, and sometimes age.
- Kids — name, age, and activities like soccer or tap.
- Hobbies and interests (cycling, jazz, sci-fi novels).
- Favorite restaurants, books, and music.
- Gift history — what you gave them last year, last birthday, last holiday.
- Communication preferences (text only, never calls; or “loves a long voice memo”).
- Their partner’s name — and how to spell it.
Why this matters more than you think
Friendships are built on noticing. “How’s Bear?” lands completely differently than “How’s the dog?” “Still doing Pilates?” beats “How’s it going?” every time. The small, specific question tells someone they stuck in your mind — that they’re a real person to you, not a name in a list.
The catch is that nobody can hold this in their head for fifty-plus people. You remember the details for your three closest friends and lose them for everyone else, and those everyone-elses are exactly the relationships that quietly fade. That gap — between the people you can keep in your head and the people you want to — is the entire reason YourPond exists.
How YourPond captures the details
- Free-form notes on every contact, for anything that doesn’t fit a field.
- Structured fields for dietary needs, gift history, pets, and kids — so they’re searchable, not buried in prose.
- “Things to ask about next time” — pre-load the topics you want to raise at your next hangout so you never blank.
- Voice entry on iOS — describe what you just learned and YourPond extracts the structured details. (See the voice-to-contact app.)
- Text entry — paste a paragraph from your last hang and YourPond pulls out the structured bits automatically.
Use cases where this is gold
- Hosting dinner — pull up the guest list, see every dietary restriction in one view, and plan the menu without a single anxious group text.
- Holiday gift season — see who you gave what last year, avoid repeats, and never blank on what your sister-in-law actually likes.
- Catching up after a long gap — open a contact and instantly see “their kid was 7 last year (so 8 now),” “her dog Bear was sick last spring,” “she just got promoted to senior PM.”
- Meeting their family — their wife is Amara, her sister is Priya, Priya’s husband is Theo. See the whole graph before you walk in the door.
This is the opposite of a professional CRM
Salesforce, HubSpot, and Dex all track deal stages, follow-up cadence, and contact frequency — they exist to move a pipeline. YourPond tracks the personal stuff: dietary needs, pets, kids, gift history, and hobbies. It isn’t a productivity tool that happens to hold names; it’s a memory aid for being the friend who remembers. Different tool, different job — and if your goal really is sales, a business CRM is the right pick.
Privacy — these are private details
Your friends’ details stay yours. No ads. No data sales. No AI training on your data. Sensitive content is protected with field-level encryption, and you can export or delete everything at any time. The whole premise only works if you can trust it with the things that matter, so that trust is the product.
How this fits the bigger picture
Details aren’t a separate feature bolted onto a contact — they’re part of the contact, and they surface exactly when they’re useful. Birthdays bring up gift history; planning a dinner surfaces dietary restrictions; a keep-in-touch reminder shows you the “things to ask about next time” you saved. And because every detail lives on the same record as the relationships, it all connects to the relationship map of your wider world.
Frequently asked questions
What kinds of details can I track in YourPond?
Free-form notes, structured fields for dietary preferences and allergies, gift history (what you gave when), pets with names and species, kids with names and ages, hobbies and interests, communication preferences, favorite restaurants and books, and “things to ask about next time.”
Can I track my friends’ pets?
Yes — each contact can have multiple pets with names and species. YourPond is one of the few personal CRMs that takes pets seriously.
Can I track gift history?
Yes — log what you gave someone for each occasion. Next year when their birthday comes around, YourPond shows you what you already gave so you don’t repeat.
Is this for professional networking or personal friendships?
Personal. YourPond is designed for the people in your life — friends, family, neighbors, classmates, colleagues you actually care about. For pure sales pipeline, use a business CRM like Salesforce.
How do I add details without spending hours typing?
Voice entry on iPhone — tap the mic and describe what you learned in a hangout, and YourPond extracts the structured details. Or type a paragraph and YourPond pulls out the bits automatically.
Are my friends’ personal details private?
Yes. YourPond doesn’t sell data, doesn’t show ads, and doesn’t train AI models on your data. Sensitive fields use field-level encryption. You can export or delete everything at any time.
What about dietary restrictions and allergies?
Each contact has dedicated fields for dietary preferences (vegan, vegetarian, kosher, halal, etc.) and allergies. Pull up your dinner guest list and see everyone’s restrictions in one view.
