More recently I’ve found if I meet someone new, either at work or socially, I write down their name, or email it to myself on my phone.
After the initial interaction I can then make any additional notes I think might help in remember relevant information about the person.
I don’t keep any of this info, afterwards I’ll either know their name from repeat interactions and delete it as unneeded, or not need it anyway, and delete it or throw it out.
I do this all the time when meeting new people. my memory for facial recognition is much better than an unaided association to a name alone, so shortly after meeting a new person, I try to mention some aspect of their appearance in a sentence. e.g. "Hey Steve - you've got a cool hairstyle."
It can come off weird to some people, but their name would be forgotten in seconds otherwise, so I've decided it's a worthwhile method.
I work in a noisy environment and many of the intros are quite brief as a new starter is being shown around and I’m busy doing my job, so I’ve taken up quickly jotting it down.
But in other situations the repartition method has and does work really well too. Also, immediately introducing the new person to someone else works strongly too.
How did you do this? Did you take photos of the person and include it in the deck?
I want to do something similar to this, but haven't really nailed down how it would work ('hi nice to meat you IanCal! Could I, uh... take a photo of you?')
I bet even without a picture, the act of writing down the name (or even better a name and a couple details about the person) would be enough to lock the name into my memory. Maybe I need to start that too...
After the initial interaction I can then make any additional notes I think might help in remember relevant information about the person.
I don’t keep any of this info, afterwards I’ll either know their name from repeat interactions and delete it as unneeded, or not need it anyway, and delete it or throw it out.