[TrianguloY]

I've noticed that retracing your steps (either literally if walking or not) helps enormously.

For me it happens that I'm doing something on my phone, remember to do something else, switch apps to do it, and literally forget what it is. But by going back or checking the recent apps I find again the "trigger" of the original reminder.

For example, you are checking [social network] and you see a post that reminds you to go searching for [object]. You close the app, open the browser...and you try to remember what were you going to search. Just going back and seeing the social network posts you were watching will remind you again of it.

It's like the though's owner is the other situation/room, and as soon as you forget one you forget the other with it. Quite interesting

[jowea]

Yeah it also happens to me on the computer. Specially funny when I end up distracted by something else, then a hour later come back to the original trigger and remember how I ended up on the last hour long rabbit hole and what I was actually going to do.

[lcnPylGDnU4H9OF]

“There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza...”

https://youtube.com/watch?v=zYY6Q4nRTS4

Probably a timeless phenomenon. But I wouldn’t be as good as Henry. I’d take the bucket to the well and eventually shout back up the way, “there’s a hole...!”

(What do you think he needed the water for anyway?)

[jagged-chisel]

In Mr. Belafonte’s live recording of it, Dear Liza asks Henry to fetch the water before he starts singing. What she needs it for could be any number of household uses - cooking, cleaning (oneself or dishes or floors), laundry…

[rootusrootus]

> I've noticed that retracing your steps (either literally if walking or not) helps enormously.

Definitely. My wife and I have a running joke about it. I'll walk into the room, she says "What's up?" and I say "trying to find something and I forgot what it was. Hold on, let me go back to my office to remember."

[pflenker]

This works for me to an absurd degree. I sometimes remember, hours later, that I had some idea e.g. while showering or while brewing coffee. Returning to the bathroom or kitchen respectively helps me remember these ideas.

[m463]

I sometimes encounter the same thing, but sort of... inside out.

I recently told someone, "I remember telling you, I was on the phone with you in X location and I recall telling you!"