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i am in a bit similar position, phone calendar reminders dating back to 90s ruined my short term memory (by effectively using them fo everything) to that effect that if I plan to open some website I must do it immediately when I hav this thought, otherwise in 15-20s it's gone and I might be pissed I was postponing it for later and started to think about something else, you really don't wanna see my calendar reminders, it would look like someone who should have some proper disability welfare, though thanks to stereotype I can get by with most of the things without actual reminders with daily routine

the worst thing is shower - away from mobile, need to keep repeating keywords of all thoughts like mantra to quickly write them down upon leaving shower

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Wait, there are people who remember things from their showers!? If that's normal, then there is something wrong with me, too.

Consider a shower whiteboard?

I have a similar problem. Often when reading my twitter timeline I will think to do some action based on a tweet, then keep scrolling and forget what it was. I would have to scroll back a few tweets to remember what that thought was.

shower whiteboard is interesting idea, though maybe it would be more practical to have waterproof phone or at least Bluetooth headset with some assistant in phone, i don't spend that much time in shower to justify installation of whiteboard and i am also not exactly on brink of revolutionary intervention that my thoughts would be that valuable

as your help with going back, that sadly for me works very rarely anymore, is bigger odds that the thought will suddenly appear later when not thinking about it anymore, though i don't risk any of this and now just immediately follow new thought without postponing, I guess you could say I developed ADD thanks to progress in mobiles technology and internet, if it's possible to develop it, i used to be avid reader of books, but nowadays have problem to focus even on longer article, having child ruined even my movie watching experience, when because if limited time i FFWD scenes without talking and other filler to shorten runtime of movie, this coming from guy who was considering destroying Christmas decoration on public street because it was in my vision field when watching movie going through blinds