Hi,

I'm currently attending a business training programme together with 30 other people. We're having weekly workshops over 2 months.

My problem here is that I'm great at remembering faces but absolutely terrible at remembering names. Just to give you an example, at last week's session, I was sitting at a table with 3 other guys and can only remember the name of one of them (and I had to lookup his name on the attendance sheet in front of me several times before I could get his name into my head). That's quite bad but I've always been like that.

So I was looking at ways to use my N900 to help. I'm not at this stage looking for a dedicated application for this (although, this could be an idea for an app) but looking at using the N900's built-in functionalities and existing third-party apps to solve this problem.

All I'd be looking for right now would be to have a list of people's pictures together with their names and project they're working on. Simple as that (if one was to build an app for that, you could of course think of many more useful features to add but I'm looking for something I could use right now). I'd like it to be quick and easy. I first thought of using the N900's Contact app but the fact that it won't allow the creation of custom contact groups rules it out.

So I'm now looking for more imaginative ways to bend the N900 to this need. If you have any suggestions, they would be more than welcome. I'm not holding too much hope of course as these are quite specific requirements but I'd be interested to see if some people here had found a way to do this using nothing more than what's already there.

Cheers.

You could use the Photo app and set names of the people as tags or alternatively as the title for pictures and put the project in the description field.

Why don't you add them in your Contacts list? You can add a picture for every contact and other details like company or project.

Put them into your contacts, together with photo and details You dont't need 'an app for that', as the N900 is no dumbphone (SCNR)

OK, andrei was quicker

Thanks. Just had a look at the Photos app and it does let me filter pictures by folder - so that's a good start.

There's doesn't seem to be any easy way to move a picture to a specific folder and, more annoyingly, the "Custom Folder" filter doesn't remember the last folder I used. I could certainly live with that though. Might give this a try.

Using tags its much faster so less interruption. When you have your own time you can add people to contacts. I just hate people who start fiddling their gadgets right middle of meeting.

The reason why I initially dismissed the Contact app is that there's no support for contact groups. It also doesn't let me search by any field other that First Name / Last Name. So these guys would be lost among all my other contacts.

But writing this made me realize that I could just prefix their names with a tag - that would group them (D'oh! - why is it that I always look for complicated stuff when the obvious is in front of me). Low tech solution. On to that now.

Thanks!

Filter by tag of course. Much quicker than filter by folder. And another D'oh moment.