Garden: Stay in Touch

Garden has a leg up on Fabriq by being free and allowing Facebook Messenger access. I give it four stars because it has no email app integration, no email data type. Therefore, if this app integrates Google Voice, Instagram, and WhatsApp then this will be the top app for maintain social connections. If they go above and beyond by allowing you to use Apple Shortcuts to automate different ways of contacting people. It will be over for the competition. I would even drop everything to apply for a job with them - it would show company quickness I have not encountered yet.

I’ve been looking for an app to remind me to get in touch with people. I was paying $20 a month for Cloze to do this function (among many others that I didn’t use). I keep more detailed notes in my Day One journal about important interactions so all I really need is an alert to remind me when to call my family and friends. If I need info on anything we discussed last time, I just pull the note up in Day One based on the last interaction date I put in Garden. I like how easy this app is. You choose when you want to get in touch with someone, the last date of interaction, and a short note. The app does exactly what it is meant to do!

There are a lot of tools out there for staying in touch for business purposes. They have a lot of extra features and cost a lot of money. Garden, however, just helps you stay in touch. How often do you want to talk to this person? It’ll remind you to reach out and help you track. That’s it. If you’re bad at staying in touch, this will help. The latest update added a lot of great features to greatly improve the quality of the interface, and I’m looking forward to seeing what other improvements come in the future.