@Edent I first heard of this idea from this SeaGL talk - you might be interested in watching it if you haven't already (it covers CiviCRM and Monica):
https://seagl.org/archive/2020/contacts-to-connections-crm-funneling-for-projects-and-people
In the end I never did anything like this myself, but I have considered doing so on some occasions, and I do tend to create tasks in TaskWarrior to respond to people when they contact me.