If you are going to outright reject all advice about
whether you should be doing this, instead selecting only for posts that validate the practice, then my comment might get lost because I absolutely agree that the effort required to keep track of players this way makes it a net loss versus relying on what you remember.
That said...
Learn to take notes like a nerd. If you store notes in plain text where it is searchable and mutable, then you can leverage the the tools we have been developing for decades specifically to search and mutate text.
There is zero benefit of storing a hundred player notes in a file called `poker/player_notes.txt` versus in abstracted files such at `poker/player_notes/albedoa.txt` and so forth. It costs you nothing and makes your life a lot easier to break them out into their own files.
Save all your notes whether related to poker or not in a folder called `notes` in your
Dropbox account, then get an app like
Bear, sync that **** up to your notes folder, and you're on your way to being the biggest nerd in your card room.
Now when you see me and Sam N. at your table, you can quickly access `albedoa.txt` and `sam_n.txt` and use the pin feature in Bear app to pin them to the top of your list. Boom, you've basically reinvented the HUD but for live poker.
And since you stored your notes in plain text, not only does it look pretty as **** because you are writing in
Markdown and letting Bear app style it all nice for you, but when you decide to move on to another app or service, you will be free to do so frictionlessly because you still have plain ol' text files.