Re: Not remembering new phone #

badgolferman <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@gmail.com> wrote:

Jörg Lorenz <hugybear@gmx.net> wrote:

On 13.03.24 05:30, Cameo wrote:

I have a fairly new phone number that I have a hard time to remember when
somebody asks for it. It would be nice if it would show up somewhere on the
opening screen, so I don’t have to search for it in the Contacts list. Do
you have a solution for this old-age problem?

 
Forget all the earlier mentioned stoneage soliutions.
 
https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT207122
 
You place this widget on your first home screen. That is the only
adequate digital solution.
 
I tried it it works with notes.
 

 
Stone Age solutions are often the best because they’ve withstood the test
of time and aren’t dependent on the whims of electricity.
 

Going further back brain based memory works much better. Back in my day I
had to remember far more than just my own phone number. Apparently just
this one important number is one too many these days.

Of course I had written down multiple important numbers in a tiny black
book especially for those called infrequently.

Of course back in my day kids received all available vaccinations which is
no longer the case. Maybe we are on a downward spiral toward idiocracy. I
don’t blame smartphones but the people who use them and the people they get
their misinformation from.

I know…back in someone’s day people didn’t end sentences with prepositions.