I bought a box of reusable name tags for use at open house night and other events.
As I have gotten older my memory for peoples names hasn’t kept up and I am sure many others have found the same. It would be great if people use them and then leave them at the space for next time they are in - rather than take them home and forget to bring them in. I’ll find a box or similar for them to live in.
Just start calling everyone “Jim Marketing” 
Jim(Mark)eting
I’ve had some success just calling everyone Steve
Except Loial. He is definitely not a Steve.
I have always been partial to “Hello my name is: Inigo Montoya you killed my father, prepare to die” if I have to fill out a name tag.
Though I could see it causing issues.
At work, getting names wrong has turned into a game.
Getting some else’s name wrong means you also get a signed a new one. And you are expected to respond equally to your new name. And to remember everyone else’s new names in the process.
I made 2 mistakes so I am also known as Tom and Toby. My friends mostly only have 1 secondary name, not 2. So I really know the problems of forgetting people’s names.
I only recognize peeps by their Slack handle at this point. 
I’ve been thinking for a couple weeks that it’s really hard to sort out people’s face, name, username, and avatar.
I’m thinking of a 1 click solution that pulls things in from here and slack…
PS: I was doing some fun stuff with print-layouts in HTML recently so it’s not so crazy:
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