I don’t know how my brain would even function at this point if it weren’t for reminders.
No joke: This rusty ol’ noggin of mine is overloaded with info these days (and, as I’ve noted before, it ran out of internal storage space approximately 12 years ago — and I’ve yet to find an affordable hippocampus RAM upgrade). So more and more, I find myself relying on a complex web of reminders both physical and digital to make sure I manage everything from day-to-day chores to Very Important Business Matters.
One area where such a need seems to come up constantly is on my Android device — when I see something in a text message, a Slack message, an email, or maybe even a website that makes me think, “Hey, you handsome but mushy-brained miscreant, you’d better not forget to come back to this later!”
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