This was interesting from his latest newsletter …… Would be a great tool to have on Rebel.
Then RMA helped me build Orbit, a personal CRM. It pulls from Gmail and WhatsApp, cross-references who I’ve been talking to with what I’ve been writing about, and nudges me on who to reach out to – for a dinner, an intro, a collaboration. I still check entries by hand. But Orbit had been sitting in my someday-maybe pile for many months. It’s built, and more importantly, filled with several hundred contacts, how I know them, when I last spoke to them, and which of them might benefit from knowing each other. I really do use it, my team uses it, and RMA uses it.
RMA presents its reports to me in Markdown files, which get dumped into Obsidian, a note-taking app. My personal knowledge base lives in that Obsidian vault. It is also connected to my Granola and a few other inputs that I use for meetings, reading and scheduling. At one point, well, about two days in, it had become a mess. Hundreds of notes were filed badly or not at all. I told RMA to sort it out, to find a taxonomy, reorganize everything and keep it tidy. It moved dozens of files and imposed conventions. The first time it did it, things were chaotic. It took two more iterations to get it right.