I’ve found it very helpful to take a bit more “forced” approach in maintaining relationships, especially as I am very poor at remembering names and biographical

I’ve found it very helpful to take a bit more “forced” approach in maintaining relationships, especially as I am very poor at remembering names and biographical details. I just have a notion doc called “people.” At first people have just a name and a physical description, along with where I met them. That just helps me remember names. But with my partner, different subsections have emerged, with gift ideas, movies to watch, fun things we could do. The approach outlined in this doc seems to focus on scaling the number of people you can keep in touch with. I struggle to see how this is different than traditional social media - eg the impersonal happy birthdays we’ve all come to ignore in Facebook.