Do you forget important events quite often?

Hi Everyone,

I have a hard time remembering important events in my friend's and families' lives. For eg. I forgot to wish my niece on her birthday or forgot to buy her a gift or forgot to call someone important with whom I had set up a call a long time ago or forgot to buy a gift for someone's house warming party or simply forgetting friends' birthdays and there are many more. I am sure some of you must have faced this too.

I'd love to know if you use any reminder tool for this? Google calendar is simply not made for this IMO. Also, wouldn't it be cool to have such reminders in the messaging app (WhatsApp or iMessage) you use every day so that such events won't be missed ever. Especially with remote work, I'm finding it quite difficult to remember such important events.

I'd love to know your thoughts on this. Are there folks like me who keep forgetting such events? What do you do to remember such one-off events?