As a professional speaker and writer I get to go to lots of functions and meet many people.

If I were a little more disciplined I would write the details of the function (when, where, theme) on the back of the business cards I collect at each event.

But I don’t.

Instead I put all the cards from an event into a little snap-lock back inside my handbag (I’m a Mum of 3 young children; I am well acquainted with snap-lock bags) and I write the details of the event on the bag itself (with special-big-fat-blue-marker pen).

Then, when I get a chance to follow up on the people I have met I just grab the right little bag.

It works for me; it might just work for you.