I sometimes use this to effect. If a conversation goes down a dead-end, it's easy to take the twenty seconds then to look up that thing you wanted to tie into t

I sometimes use this to effect. If a conversation goes down a dead-end, it's easy to take the twenty seconds then to look up that thing you wanted to tie into the conversation, and now you can rope the conversation back to that point and explore a different path. I'm at this point right now where I take notes about things I want to loop back on when I'm having casual conversations over the phone. But since my note-taking device is my phone, I don't do much note-taking in person because using a phone like that appears disrespectful. Not sure how to break that limitation.