Backstory: Remember Your Facebook Friends!

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Finally, a contact manager for Facebook.

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Description from store NEW: Now supports New Facebook in both Light and Dark Mode! ★ Add private labels and notes in Facebook profiles. ★ Copy notes in from public info. ★ Search through your notes, e.g. to find all friends tagged with a certain place. ★ Sync and back up across multiple devices. ★ Free, lightweight personal CRM for Facebook. Featured on Product Hunt! https://www.producthunt.com/posts/backstory-for-facebook Q: Will my friends know what I write about them? A: No! Only you can see the labels and notes you've written. Q: Where are my notes stored? A: For your privacy and security, your data is stored offline on your own computer by default. If you choose to create an online backup, your data is backed up to our servers so you can sync it across multiple devices. Q: What does syncing do? Syncing keeps your notes up-to-date between multiple devices. Changes on one device will be sent to all other devices signed in to the same backup. You can also transfer your notes to a new device by signing in to your backup on it. Q: Do you collect data on my friends or my Facebook activity? A: We do not store any information besides your notes, labels, and friends' names. Q: It says that you can "read and change my data on www.facebook.com";. What gives? A: We need to detect whose Facebook profile you are viewing and load their corresponding labels and notes. Hence, this is a Chrome permission allowing us to do that. Privacy Policy: http://www.trybackstory.com/privacy.html

Latest reviews

(2022-05-02) Dio: Read the Privacy practices! It reads "Backstory: Remember Your Facebook Friends! collects the following: For example: passwords, credentials, security question, or personal identification number (PIN)"
(2021-06-05) P A: Update: It doesn't work on Facebook, like I don't see the box on peoples profiles but when i click the extension on the toolbar it shows the lists and search fine. Please fix and i'll give you the one star back! I LOVE THIS APP. Thank you so much. The one thing to add is the capacity to search more than one thing at once. Say 2 tags or a tag and a note together and more like 3 or 4 or 5 ... items
(2020-03-22) Ben Dawson: Great idea! I've been looking for something like this for quite some time. Was very surprised that Facebook didn't have a native version.
(2019-12-16) Marat Dospolov: Cool stuff
(2019-08-07) Christoph Gundacker: Awesome! Thanks! Have been searching for something like this for AGES and was thinking of making a feature like this myself. Luckily I found your App before starting DEV. Great Job! +++ Don't understand why facebook won't add this themselves.
(2018-06-10) Tan Nguyen: thanks to this app I can organize my facebook friends effectively
(2017-01-20) Wen Rui Liau: Adds a great personal touch to your Facebook friends and great for remembering little trivial about them too! Facebook please remember to credit the creator when you (eventually) add this as a permanent feature.
(2017-01-19) Yunru Phua (Yunru P): Not sure why Facebook never created this feature, because it is such a NECESSITY for every Facebook user! With over 1200+ friends, I'll never have to agonize over how I met this Facebook friend with an unfamiliar profile pic again. 11/10 recommend.

Latest issues

(2022-05-27, v:1.1.0.4) michael thompson: Tags in the newsfeed
Is there a possibilty of having the nicknames next to their name on the newsfeed would be amazing
(2022-01-17, v:1.1.0.4) Jeff Lee: Backstory when hovering over a name?
Would it be possible to have Backstory show its notes (or even just the first one) on the popup Facebook displays when hovering over a person's name?
(2021-09-15, v:1.1.0.4) Alberts _____ (HUG lv): Backstory feature does not always appears
Why Backstory feature appears on some profiles but on some other does not (even friends)?
(2021-09-15, v:1.1.0.4) Alberts _____ (HUG lv): How to remove labels?
I have created wrong label which is allways appearing and is not needed - how to remove it? It seems there is no way to remove.
(2020-08-21, v:1.0.3.3) Jeannie Marsden: FB is forcing the new layout
I don't want to lose all my notes. Please update!
(2020-08-20, v:1.0.3.3) Johnny Semedo: Please Update it to the new facebook desktop interface
If you don't already know, facebook it's changing the look. we will have a different interface, right now it's optional but from September onwards will be mandatory and permanent. Could you please update this amazing extension, Thanks
(2020-07-23, v:1.0.3.3) Ann Brady: Not showing up on fb
Backstory isn't showing up on facebook anymore. I miss it. Any thoughts? I'm happy to pay for a premium version. Real estate brokers are a great target market for this. In a perfect world, I could edit/merge tags to and the tag process would be more clean/streamlined. Fingers crossed you can help me get it back on my page. : (
(2020-05-07, v:1.0.3.3) Steve Mitchell: How To Use
Sorry to not quite get this but I 'think' your FB chrome extension could be what I need, but I'm not quite understanding how to use it? Do you have any simple instructions? Thanks
(2019-12-21, v:1.0.3.3) Boris Popovich: Where on Mac computer is the data stored?
My hard disc died and I was able do recover the data and copy to admin library folder, but your data doesn't show up in Chrome, so all my notes are gone. I didn't create an account with you.
(2019-12-13, v:1.0.3.3) Boris Popovich: where is the data?
I had to reinstall osx and it seems that I could successfully recover all chrome data but backstory data isn't there. Where is it stored? I have the old mac account user folder.
(2019-12-13, v:1.0.3.3) Nikos Kovatzis: on mobile?
is there a way to sync with mobile (android) device? even using web on those? if not any plans for doing a relevant app?
(2019-07-09, v:1.0.3.2) Fabio Vescarelli: Backstory for non-friends users
Hello, it would be very useful for us to be able to use your extensions with non-friend members of a FB group we own. Is it possible? Thank you F.
(2018-12-15, v:0.1.0.2) Unable to install - error
I get this message in chrome store: Package is invalid. Details: 'Could not load javascript 'content_scripts/components/Note.js' for content script.'.
(2018-12-13, v:0.1.0.1) Brandi Jasmine: Whodat is missing
It is appearing on Chrome but it is not showing up on Facebook pages. I have restarted the computer but it's still missing. Help?
(2018-08-23, v:0.0.1.7) Boris Popovich: Syncing on Mac
I installed this extension on my Mac Pro and Macbook Pro, but it is not syncing. Chrome sync is on on both computers. What do I have to do in order to sync this extension and see my notes on all my computers?
(2018-07-20, v:0.0.1.7) Lisa Guarasci: Sync account across devices
Can I sync WhoDat across devices, like my laptop and desk top. When I add tags and notes on my desktop they are not there on the desktop .
(2018-06-16, v:0.0.1.7) Bitte fügen Sie eine Möglichkeit zum Sichern und Wiederherstellen hinzu?
Können Sie bitte eine Möglichkeit zum Sichern und Wiederherstellen hinzufügen? In eine CSV-Datei exportieren? Ich finde, dass die Daten nicht auf meinen Backup-Computer übertragen wurden, und ich möchte, dass sie überall dort angezeigt werden, wo ich mich an meinem Computer angemeldet habe. Könntest du vielleicht auch einen Weg finden, Leute in bestimmten Tags zu melden? Oder an alle in einem Suchergebnis? Und / Oder an meine Pinnwand posten, aber nur den Leuten im Tag erscheinen (während sie für sie teilbar bleiben). Liebe das Plugin, danke.
(2018-05-28, v:0.0.1.7) Please add a way to backup and restore?
Can you please add a way to backup and restore? Export to a CSV file? I find that the data does not transfer to apply to my backup computer, and I would like it to appear wherever I am logged into my Google account as well, if possible.

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