Android · Memory
Remember people's names, built on what the research actually shows.
Highlights
Four failures, four modes
Names fail for four documented reasons. Each one gets its own practice mode rather than a single generic drill.
Evidence, not folklore
Built from the memory literature instead of the usual advice to "just repeat their name three times".
Your actual people
Practice on the people you really meet, not on a stock set of strangers.
Almost everyone is bad at names, and almost all the advice about it is folk wisdom. Repeat it back to them. Make a rhyme. Picture the name written on their forehead. Some of this helps a little, most of it is untested, and none of it distinguishes between the different ways name recall actually breaks.
Namemo starts from the research instead.
Why names are unusually hard
A name is arbitrary in a way almost nothing else about a person is. You can infer someone’s job from their clothes and their mood from their face, but nothing about a person tells you they are called Priya. The link is pure association with no supporting structure, which is exactly the kind of memory humans are worst at.
The literature identifies four distinct failure points, and they need different fixes. An app that treats them as one problem will help with one quarter of your failures.
Built with
React Native and Expo. The scheduling is spaced repetition tuned for associative recall rather than the vocabulary-style intervals most apps borrow wholesale.