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Deal with it everyday. It’s funny and I hate it.
Pen and paper notebook. One for Home and one for work. I use notes on my phone when I don’t have my notebook and copy them later on. Nobody at work knows that I have terrible short term memory because I “remember”, checks notes, everything.
Several times in my office notes i write something partially during a meeting, and end up blanking out later on what I meant to finish it with
I’ll remember this advice
I just bought a handle for a set of pans with removable handles because I was 100% sure I had bought the pan and needed the handle. Now I have two panless handles.
Never leave the kitchen while cooking, unless you want to eat charcoal or burn down your house. Especially if your laptop or TV is on, or to check your phone.
i set timers when i leave. usually like “simmer for 30 minutes”. actually also when i stay, i don’t know how long is 1-2 minutes (has it been 20 seconds or 5 minutes??)
but it also help that my place is small enough that i can see or hear the stove from everywhere lol
My Notepad++ has 32 tabs open with notes, some I don’t even remember what they’re for.
Even just the act of writing something down helps solidify it in your memory.
Also, since you have those tabs, you can just… flip through them and check. Then close out anything that’s unimportant or past its usefulness. Its not like this information is “forgotten”. You’re just choosing not to look at it, for whatever reason.
my solutions so far
1 set a reminder with notification, especially if it’s more than a few days out
2 write on the day to-dos on my wrist, (if i write it on my palm, i forget and wash it off usually)One white legal pad next to my desk, one pocket notebook and travel pen in my pocket. Have a thought or idea, write it down. Every Saturday I type all those notes into a running Google doc for the year and then put a check mark next to it on the paper.
I have a doc for every year. I regularly go back and read though them starting with the most current year and working back. If something is completed or used in a project I use the mark through function on that entry so it can still be read in case it could be helpful again but to signify that I’ve used it.
It’s not a perfect system but it’s helped me a ton.
This morning at work i turned on a water valve to fill a big tub of water that would take 15 minutes to fill. I ran across the room to grab my notebook and pen to remind myself. While running to get the pen i found some of my tools out of place as always and started to arranged them. In those two seconds I forgot the notebook and the water, I arranged the tools and left.
When I come back an hour later the water is overflowing and flooding the room.
This is my life, getting distracted by butterflies and forgetting everything
Relatable
I also forget to remind myself to write down. Or say, I’ll write right up when I finish my task in hand.
I have a super power. If I was paying attention and not just in my own head ignoring you as you talk, I can repeat most conversations word for word for up to a day. And I can easily give a detailed summary for up to a month.
Acting on any of these memories is the challenge. The executive disfunction is the crippling part.
That and paying attention in the first place.
That said, I can also remember where I left off when I get distracted. This helps but not much.
I use my calendar for things that aren’t events. Easy way to habit stack writing things down without scheduling setting a reminder to remember it later. Scheduling remembering things is great.
I have dozens of notes in my notes app I forgot existed.
My Google Keep is several gigs in size at this point.
I have so many notes in my notes app, it’s hard to find the notes i write down because there’s so many. So…
Also if you don’t remember you wrote it in your notes app, how will you remember to look at the notes in time 🙈
It’s always fun to see everything I was supposed to remember when I open the notes to remember something new
so real
That’s why I usually write notes in repeating alarms. The sound annoyance forces me to deal with them before they become too much. Either that or I directly write an event on the calendar.
If anything I only have light ADHD but I live by alarms.
I just keep rescheduling the calendar reminders because they always come up when I’m already doing something else.
This. It never works for me. They always happen at an inopportune time and I just swipe it away. 10 seconds later I forget I even swiped away something, so I don’t even get to reschedule it.
If I stop to reschedule it, I lose my flow of whatever else I was doing and then that doesn’t get done because the momentum is gone.
