Use cases
Creatives’ Garden (where it earns its place)
On Creatives’ Garden: People → Touchpoints → Garden. Tend the relationships your craft grows from.
The Creatives' Garden holds the people your craft grows from (editors, gallerists, first readers, past clients, the friend who always shares your work) and the touchpoints between you. It is a personal CRM for the kind of creative career that does not want to be a funnel.
The writer keeping in touch with editors
You have twelve editors across six magazines. You want to nudge one of them each fortnight without making it a spreadsheet. The Garden lists them, tracks the last touchpoint, and gently surfaces who you have not spoken to in a while.
It is a rhythm, not a pipeline.
The painter tending collectors
A dozen people have bought a painting. They are not leads. They are people. Log the studio visits, the emails, the show they came to. Over five years, the Garden becomes a map of the small world that keeps your work possible.
The musician after the release
You just put out a record. There are 40 people (writers, playlist curators, venue bookers, friends who tell friends) who make the difference. Log the sends, the follow-ups, the who-listened. It is the difference between a release that fades and one that keeps travelling.
What lives in the Garden
- PeopleName, role, how you met, what to remember.
- TouchpointsEach interaction, tagged and dated. The record of a relationship over time.
- The Garden viewA quiet weather report, who is warm, who has drifted, who is due.
Questions people ask
How is this different from a real CRM?
A CRM measures pipeline in dollars. The Garden measures relationships in touchpoints. Different tool, different job.
Can I import my contacts?
The Garden is deliberately hand-built. Type in the people who actually matter; the shortness of that list is a feature.
What if I have hundreds of contacts?
You almost certainly don't have hundreds of people your craft grows from. Ten to sixty is normal. The Garden is sized for the true number.
A quiet, hand-kept record of the people your work is possible because of.