Hey y'all! So, like many of y'all, my short-term memory is just abhorrent. I honestly couldn't tell you what I ate for breakfast yesterday, which is fine, because really who cares what I had for breakfast yesterday? What I'm much more concerned about is that it seems that my recall is so poor that its negatively impacting productivity in a lot of other areas of my life. I have independent topics of study such as music which I feel I'm hitting a wall with because I can't memorize theory or songs, for example. I've been trying to get into healthier and more productive routines but I'll frequently straight-up forget tasks or habits that I'm trying to implement. Books, lectures and podcasts about topics that I'm really interested in seem to go in one ear and out the other. I even forget important communiques from friends and partners and have wound up really upsetting people I care about in the past because I seem inattentive or uncaring, but of course I'd never disregard these kinds of things, its just that the information has a way of, well, disappearing.

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*end rant* what I'm here to ask to y'all today is: what are practical, systematic tools, habits and aids that you use to help your own recall? I've already snooped around this sub for this kind of thing and most of what I've found has kinda fallen into the realm of dietary or exercise advice? And don't get me wrong, I know those are both important elements in a healthy lifestyle, but what I really need is to extend my habitual toolkit. Share what works for ya.