Legacy
Creatives’ Garden — the file outlives the vendor
On Creatives’ Garden — People → Touchpoints → Garden. Tend the relationships your craft grows from.
The Garden you keep this year — the editors, the gallerists, the first readers — is the address book of your working life. Five years, ten years, twenty from now, that book is the map of a career. It should not depend on a card on file.
The disappearing personal-CRM
Personal-CRM SaaS is a small, churn-prone category. Every couple of years one gets acquired, pivots to enterprise, or shuts down with an export deadline. Your relationships did not sign up for that story.
A file endures because it does not depend on a story.
The long view
Twenty years of touchpoints with the people your work grows from is an artefact — a working memoir. In the Garden that lives as a single HTML file you can open on any laptop that ever exists.
You cannot outlive your subscription. You can outlive the file's format? Very, very unlikely — it is plain HTML and JSON.
Passing it on
Some tools you use for a project. The Garden you use for a career. When one ends and the other continues, the file continues too — same laptop, next laptop, whichever one you happen to be sitting at.
Long-term durability
- Runs on any modern browser.No plugin, no runtime, no dependency chain.
- Plain JSON export.Readable even if browsers change beyond recognition.
- No account to lapse.Nothing about ownership decays.
- MIT-licensed if you forked our Factory to shape your own.Even our workshop is inheritable.
Questions people ask
Will this still open in 2036?
It contains standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. If those break, the entire web has broken. Your data is still readable JSON.
What if I want to switch tools eventually?
Export JSON. It is a list of people and events, in plain text. Import into anything.
What if you go away?
The file keeps working. Every part of it is embedded — no CDN, no font call, no server.
A career's worth of relationships deserves a home that outlives every vendor.