Wrong number

[ewx]

[Poll #1083179]

(To clarify I mean the reader's contact information and the reader's attempt to contact someone.)

Comments

[simont]

[X] I look through my email from them, particularly party invitations. In fact I have an email folder containing people's contact details, in which I save mails they send me containing those details and also mails I send myself containing things they told me by some other medium. Not everything I need is always in there, but it's a good first place to look.

Using an email folder for this purpose works well because it also naturally timestamps the information; so where a paper-based mechanism might land me in the situation of not quite being able to remember whether the six-digit number I scrawled beside their name is their phone number in this year's or last year's place, I can now just check the date on the email and make a good guess. (In fact, I'm a big fan of timestamping absolutely everything these days; I so often find myself wishing I'd timestamped completely random things that I now almost habitually write down the full ISO 8601 date and time when jotting random notes to myself.)

My current contact information is available online to members of the SGO VPN, in the obvious place (TINC). At least, it's current now, though it wasn't ten minutes ago; thanks for reminding me to update it :-)