A few things to improve still:
- There's only one 'dimension' in the entire app, which is 'People'
- This People dimension is great since it's easily linked to 'Company'
- That way, People are automatically synced to the companies they work for
- This is great since it's a native feature, without need for config (unlike horrible HubSpot)
- That means you can have as many views as you want, based on the first People column (which is fixed in folk and can't be moved)
Problem:
- As someone always looking to connect with my network and seeking job opportunities daily to constantly enhance my career, I need a second 'dimension' in the folk app
- That means I would need, in the folk database, a way to list all the jobs I come across (on LinkedIn, from my existing and new contacts, etc.)
- Because for now I have to create a specific column, called Type, where I put either: Person or Job - to differentiate between Person rows and Job rows in the same unified My Network database
- That way, in my database entries I get to view instantly my people entries and my job entries
- That's the only way I found to keep my job search in memory alongside my contacts
- The problem is, I use folk's first column People (contact full name) to put the job title of the job ad when I do so, that's the only way I found to keep a clean record of my entire unified DB
- Far from perfect, but it works for me; until folk finds a way to expand and provide a Job Seekers feature?
- Also the templates section has no Job Seeker template, only Hiring templates (which are useless to me since I'm not a hiring manager, but I'm on the other side)
Other small problems:
- No native automatic 'created date' and 'last modified date' (such as on HubSpot): it's a small native feature which I don't understand why folk is not implementing. This would save me hourssss of manual work... also without this feature, it's easy to make mistakes when doing updates... the auto-update date precisely addresses this issue
- The macOS is kinda slow compared to the app inside of Brave/Chrome which is very fast (especially since the last update). Since the last update the macOS is also faster but not as fast as Brave/Chrome version. When you scroll fast from row 1 to row 1000 for example, it feels not fluid enough in the macOS/Electron app. Not a big deal but still annoying.
- Also annoying: Select and Multi-Select cells > you can't press enter to exit the cell and validate the confirmation, meaning you waste time having to click with your mouse outside of the cell > big waste of time when have to do this 100000 times every day
- Also annoying: you can't add extra URL columns, for example I need a second URL column to have (1) Linkedin profiles in one and (2) an URL that is an info about my contact, that I can easily click on from the table (and not the contact panel)... problem is, folk only allows a native URL column with only one clickable link. I need two.
Tips/other:
- Be advised that, unlike other macOS shortcuts and usual workflows, selectioning an entire selection of multiple columns is > click on first row > press Cmd + Maj > click on your last selection row
- Cmd + A for select all doesn't work (so you'd have to do same method as above on the entire page > click on first row > press Cmd + Maj > click on your last selection row)
- Also, when your paid plan is about to expire (from as early as 7 days ahead) they start threatening you with big red display that you're account is to be 'blocked' (whatever that means). 'Blocked' is a strong word, very intimidating (and their emails too) and it feels like your data is about to be deleted. Other services like Dropbox don't do that, they're more accommodating and will not block you for a few days even after payment is due. Since I'm a monthly subscriber, I don't wanna see this read sign every month 10 prior to the payment.
I'll only leave 3 stars because I feel like it's truly a 5 star product but they should pay more attention to this kind of system, design and UX issues.
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