Recalling a past interaction with a person is about more than “how do I know this person?”. It’s also about the emotional attachment that you have to the person. It’s about whether they did you a favor and you owe them something or about whether you did them a favor and they owe you. Most of the time those relationships a very implicit and not easily grasped by notes.
There also a cost with not paying attention to another person when you meet them but being occupied with reading your notes, when the person would expect that you pay attention to them.
Absolutely, but I think that a lot of the time I would only need a small amount of information to trigger better recall. And sometimes there just isn’t much to remember. For example, “this is ____, she was in your dance class yesterday” would have saved some momentary embarrassment at a party a month or so back.
Recalling a past interaction with a person is about more than “how do I know this person?”. It’s also about the emotional attachment that you have to the person. It’s about whether they did you a favor and you owe them something or about whether you did them a favor and they owe you. Most of the time those relationships a very implicit and not easily grasped by notes.
There also a cost with not paying attention to another person when you meet them but being occupied with reading your notes, when the person would expect that you pay attention to them.
Absolutely, but I think that a lot of the time I would only need a small amount of information to trigger better recall. And sometimes there just isn’t much to remember. For example, “this is ____, she was in your dance class yesterday” would have saved some momentary embarrassment at a party a month or so back.