By this point in life, you probably know a lot of people. And keeping track of all of them (your childhood neighbor, your mom’s new best friend, your kid’s substitute math teacher) can be tricky. Adding people to the list of contacts in your phone probably doesn’t cut it anymore.

You need Humin, a new iPhone app that organizes your relationships in the same way you think about them—by context rather than less-than-helpful alphabetical order.

Once you create a free Humin account, the app culls data about your contacts from your email, address book, and social media platforms. Humin then generates a master entry for every person in your phone. So it might know from your LinkedIn profile that Sarah Smith works at Teach for America and studied at UCLA, and from your Gmail calendar that you met her last May and have a meeting with her this coming Wednesday. (And all this info is displayed on Sarah’s profile page.)

“Think of it like page rank for people,” explains Humin’s co-founder and CEO Ankur Jain. Every set of search results is ordered to show relevant people based on the user, time of day, place, etc. If you can’t remember someone’s name, simply type in the search bar “met today” or “met last week.” “It’s designed the way you think,” says Jain.

Our favorite part is that you can search for people with phrases like: “That lady I met at Yoga People,” or “the guy I met last week who teaches fifth grade and lives in New York.” Humin finds the person that matches those criteria.

This may be the end of awkward moments.

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