How to track gifts so you never repeat yourself

Two reasons. One: you stop accidentally repeating yourself. Two: you start noticing what landed. The wine landed; the candle didn't. The book they actually read; the gift card they never spent. Over a year, the gift log becomes a tiny portrait of what each person actually likes.

In Contact Book, the gift entry takes a name, a date, an occasion ("birthday", "Christmas", "thank-you", "no occasion"), a direction ("given" or "received"), and one optional note. That's it. The whole thing is twenty seconds of typing.