The nights you remember best are the ones nobody thought to record.

The best nights tend to be unplanned and undocumented, which is not a coincidence. Nothing was being arranged for later, nobody was checking how it looked, and everyone was fully inside it. Recording changes the posture of a room even slightly. The evenings that stayed with you were the ones where the only thing anybody was doing was being there.

Leave the phone alone for one night this week and let it go unrecorded. You will not lose the evening, you will get more of it. Trust your memory to keep what matters, since it has been doing that for all the nights you still talk about.