[alexanderdmitri]

I find my long-term memory is limited when it comes to technical details. What has served me best is just storing a pointer in most cases and making sure I have access to the reference.

If it's been 6 weeks since I've worked on/with x and now I need to work with x again, what's important is that I have a process to reproduce x or build on x. I'd argue this is a better practice than trying to commit everything to memory because human memory is pretty corruptible. I also find this helps with complex problems because you don't have to deal with the devil upfront, you just have to be able to do some high-level fuzzing.

That being said, I think it's important to commit mistakes to memory because those are embarrassing to repeat.