Keep your people in orbit.
Social Orbits gathers everyone you know from Facebook, LinkedIn, Instagram and your contacts into one map, arranged by how close they are. Each morning it shows who is due for a call. It lives on your own Mac.
The closer the orbit, the shorter the period.
You place each person in an orbit. Its period becomes their check-in rhythm, and Social Orbits reminds you when someone is overdue.
Inner
Family and best friends. The people you would call first.
Close
Good friends you want to hear from every month.
Active
Friends and colleagues you catch up with each season.
Extended
People worth a note on their birthday or once a year.
Acquaintance
Known and placed, with no reminders.
The sizes follow Dunbar's layers, the research finding that people keep about 5, 15, 50, 150 and 500 relationships at decreasing levels of closeness. You set your own periods for anyone.
From scattered contacts to one map.
Download your data
Request your exports from Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, and export your iPhone or Google contacts. Each service emails you a file.
Drop the files in
Add the files to Social Orbits on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded anywhere.
One person per human
Duplicates across apps merge by shared email, phone or profile. You confirm the uncertain ones.
Place your people
Put your closest people in orbits and add a few notes. The more you add, the more useful it gets.
Open Today
Each morning, see who is due, whose birthday is coming, and what you promised to follow up on.
This week
One short list of who to reach out to.
- TodayWho is overdue, birthdays, visits to plan and your own follow-ups. Call, text or message in one tap, log what you talked about, or defer someone to another day.
- PeopleEveryone you know, closest first. Search any detail: a company, a school, a city, a note.
- Network and MapSee your orbits as a solar system, or see where everyone lives on a map before a trip.
- AskcomingQuestions in plain English, like "who from college lives near Boston and hasn't heard from me this year?"
- Log by voicecomingPress your iPhone's Action button after a call and say what happened.
Your map stays with you.
On your Mac
Your contacts, notes and map live on your own computer. There is no Social Orbits account and no server holding your data.
On your iPhone, privately
Open your map on your phone through a private network that only your own devices can join.
Your notes, your words
The people in your map are other people's details. Social Orbits never shares them, never posts and never messages anyone for you.
Starting with friends and family.
The first version of Social Orbits is in a private beta, set up one person at a time. Join the list and you will get a download link and a short setup guide when there is a spot.
Join the beta opens a short Google Form. We only use your details to contact you about the beta.
Send it from your own phone or email. Social Orbits never sends messages for you.
- Works on
- A Mac, with your iPhone as a companion
- You'll need
- Your data exports from Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram, and your contacts
- Setup
- About an hour, most of it waiting for exports to arrive
- Cost
- Free during the beta