Managing Your Friendships, With a Personal CRM Tool

“I want a dating app where all I can see is the person's metadata,” the poet Noel Black tweeted Monday. It reminded me of a passage in the fashion and culture critic Natasha Stagg's new book, in which she confesses: “I want to organize the people I know. I feel simultaneously like I miss every person I've ever met, and like I could go without seeing any of them again.” It also reminded me of a college friend who kept a spreadsheet of boys she'd kissed (organized by frat), the Google Calendar invite I sent my former roommate so we wouldn't forget to have a conversation next Thursday, and the recent mini-boom in “personal CRM” apps.