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I have a really bad memory, but the part that affects me most is inability to remember conversations, even fairly recent ones (like the day before). Just zero recall of it ever happening. I'd love a way to quickly and unobtrusively log 'talked with Able and Baker about X Y and Z at such and such time and place'. Right now all I can think of is typing it into my phone or writing in a notepad.

But having such a solution, that I could review to improve recall, or search if necessary, would be lovely. Something quick and unobtrusive.

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Kind of like the rememberance agents the early wearable computing people used? http://alumni.media.mit.edu/~rhodes/Papers/wear-ra.html

Something like that would be wonderful, yeah. Far as I can tell, it's not a real existing thing, right? Just an idea that there was a prototype of?

I was actually building something like that for myself.

Would you use it if you had to manually log it?

Yeah. Having to manually log to /some/ extent is actually my expectation; it just has to be simpler than typing out a whole log entry. I don't want to type out

"dec 02 2016 Hung out with Alex and Sammy, talked about Star Wars and whether Darth Maul or Qui-Gon would win in a fistfight, Sammy was backing Darth Maul and won the argument"

I don't have any ideas to improve that in any way, I don't know if it CAN be improved without some element of literal mind-reading, I just know that typing out the above is inadequate, it's too clunky, time-consuming, and conspicuous.

What about a Speech-to-text solution? Don't have to take the time to pull out your notebook or type on your phone's screen. Just tap a button on a headset or tell GNow to add a log entry, and speak the entry.

Communication; the next best thing to reading minds!

Interesting. I initially thought people might be comfortable typing like that and letting the app parse it all out. Thought it might be more natural than filling out a form.

What would you expect or be willing to time out instead?

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