# Guides you can use with a notebook and a phone

Each guide holds a checklist or a framework you can use with a notebook, with the moment Marrow helps in one marked section. Useful with no product at all.

Each guide is written to be useful without any product. Where Marrow helps, it says so in one section, and who should not bother. Marrow is in Beta.

Going to ADIPEC or GITEX Global this year? Start with [how to follow up after ADIPEC 2026](/guides/follow-up-after-adipec-2026) or [how to follow up after GITEX Global 2026](/guides/follow-up-after-gitex-2026).

One row per person, two formulas and a Monday routine turn a sheet into a personal CRM
The columns, the two formulas and the weekly routine that make a spreadsheet work as a personal CRM, and an honest list of where it breaks.

Sort the stack in one pass, and capture only the cards you can still picture
A method for the stack in your drawer: sort it, capture the cards you remember, rescue the ones you half remember, and be honest about the rest.

How to follow up after ADIPEC 2026
A day by day plan for ADIPEC 2026 at ADNEC, Abu Dhabi: the note after each conversation, the evening card backlog, and three messages to send.

How to follow up after GITEX Global 2026
A plan for GITEX Global 2026 in Dubai: the Summit day, four Expo days, a two minute note per conversation, the evenings, and three messages to send.

Capture on the floor, and write to the right people within forty eight hours
A plan for the week after an event: what to capture on the floor, how to triage the pile, what to write and when, with a forty eight hour checklist.

Name the gap in one clause, give a real reason, and ask for nothing
How to write to someone after a year or more of silence: recover the context, find a real reason, keep the apology to one clause, and leave an easy out.

Say the name back, note one detail within the hour, and read it before you meet again
How to remember the people you meet: say the name back, note one detail within the hour, read it before you meet again, and recover if you forgot.

Screenshot the thread and the person is filed with the promise
Turn a screenshot of an email thread, a chat or a signature into a filed person with the follow up: which screenshots work, what is read, and privacy.

Data entry is where personal CRMs die, so stop typing into one
Why data entry kills personal CRMs, what a CRM with no typing looks like, what it costs in accuracy, and how Marrow lets you check and correct in a sentence.

Three tiers and a real reason keep a cadence from becoming a chore
How to set a realistic rhythm for staying in touch with a professional network, without spamming people or turning relationships into a chore list.

Walk in knowing last time, what changed and what you want, in five minutes
A repeatable way to walk into a meeting knowing what happened last time, what changed since, and what you owe the other person, in five minutes.

Write one line per investor on the way out, then work the list for a few weeks
What to record for each investor you meet at a demo day or pitch event, how to work the list over the weeks after, and what to leave out of it.

Say four things after a meeting and your CRM is up to date
How to run your network from voice notes: what to say in twenty seconds after a meeting, what gets filed, Arabic and English together, and a wrong transcript.

Photograph the cards tonight, and write to the right people within two days of the show
The week after a show: photograph the cards the same evening, sort by what each person asked, pick who to look up, write on time and save people to your phone.

Record who they are, where you met, what they want and what was promised
The short list of what is worth writing down after meeting someone new, in order of usefulness, with examples of a weak note and a strong one.

## Related

- [How Marrow works](/how-it-works)
- [Get the app](/download)
- [Facts](/facts)

Last updated 10 October 2026. Canonical: https://usemarrow.com/guides