For college students
A personal CRM built for college, not for sales
In your first month you will meet more people than you did in the four years before it — in a dorm hallway, at a club fair, in a discussion section, at a party where the music was too loud to catch a last name. Almost all of them evaporate by November.
Why the people you meet disappear
Not because you did not care. Because meeting someone and keeping them are two different skills, and college only teaches the first one. You meet forty people in a week, your phone fills with numbers attached to first names, and three months later you cannot place half of them. The friendship never failed — it just never got a second contact.
The window is narrower than it feels. Someone you met at orientation is easy to text in week two and awkward to text in week nine, and the difference is entirely whether anything happened in between.
What to write down, and when
The day you meet someone, write one sentence. Not a profile — a sentence. Where you met, and one thing they said. “Priya, from the co-op tour, doing MCB, has a dog named Waffle back home.” That is enough to make a conversation two weeks later feel like a continuation instead of a restart.
Whatever you promised goes in too. You said you would send them the problem set, or introduce them to someone in the club, or come to their show. Promises are the highest-value thing in the whole notebook, and they are the first thing to fall out of your head.
How Siyi handles the rest
Siyi.app reads the dates and the promises out of what you wrote and brings the person back at the right moment: the week of their birthday, the day the favor is due, or after enough months of silence that you would want to know. You are not maintaining a database. You are writing a sentence and getting a nudge.
There is no feed, no streak, and no score. Nobody you add is told they are in there. It is a private notebook, and the only person it ever performs for is you.
Where it fits the rest of college
Most people meet the bulk of their year in three places, and each one has a different failure mode: clubs, where forty faces arrive at once, and career fairs, where the follow-up is the entire point. Dorm floors take care of themselves for a semester and then stop.
If you have already tried to solve this with a table, the comparison with a Notion contacts database covers exactly where that approach gives out.
Start with one person.
Siyi.app is free, and the whole first step is writing one sentence about someone you met this week.
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