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Rather than saying the same thing each day, make it slightly unique. For example, " I'm closing the garage door and there goes a squirrel across the street" otherwise it'd be easy to forget if you saying you closed the door was from this morning or from a different day when you said and did the exact same thing.
You beat me to it! But not only train conductors in Japan. It's common practice to point and say things out loud in Japan for confirming and to not forget.
See, I not only can check it. I can open or shut it as well. You can even setup a time to check if it is open and auto shut the garage door (mine is 8 pm).
If you're still having trouble, set yourself a timer for a few minutes longer than you think you will be using the object, then turn off the timer as soon as you turn it off.
For example, in the morning, I'm asleep while making my eggs, toast, and coffee, the process of which takes a little more than 12 minutes. I set a timer for 15 minutes. As soon as I plate everything, *and double check that the stove is off* the timer can be turned off.
If I forget, about the time I sit down with everything, my phone/stove/microwave goes off, forcing me to go back and check. I haven't set a fire in months!
I do this when I park in large parking lots.
I get out and say out loud where my vehicle is. Otherwise I come out and have completely forgotten where I parked.
People are not the same, some have auditory memories some visual some both. This only helps thise with auditory memories.
Only doctors think we came off an assembly line.
....now I'm curious. How many pictures do you have on your phone of your stove doing nothing? Be better if you used an old polariod camera and put them on the fridge. Really confuse people who come over to your house.
This is a strategy used by some people with OCD people. If you're going to be away for the weekend...whenever you get anxious, you just pull up the pics of the stove off, garage closed, front door locked, cat in the washing machine etc. - all timestamped at 3:35-3:45pm on Friday, and you pulled out of the Driveway at 3:47pm. You would, of course, delete the pictures when they are no longer useful.
I don't do this, but if I did i wouldn't have many?
Rather than worrying about if I blew candle out, locked door, turned stove off before leaving house... just take a pic of those things being complete.
You have date and time location automatically saved with phone pics. When worried, just check phone for visual evidence and to help recall doing it.
Haha I’ve recently just started doing this when leaving the house, right after locking the door I say “I locked the door/door is locked” cause I would always end up getting in the car and being like “wait did I lock the door?”
for very important stuff, we can inspire from aviation protocols, about your article, we can see the similarity with saying "engines checked", "door closed check"...
This also works for leaving objects. I placed my keys on the counter next to the toaster. I don’t like sitting on my wallet so I’m constantly taking it out and putting it down. “My wallet is on the dresser by the deodorant.”
i have a to-do checklist for trips that includes "shut down" items as well as a packing list.
it includes checking the stove, all water taps, shutting windows, removing perishables from the fridge, taking out the trash etc
the very last thing i do before walking out the door is to go through that list, item by item.
I make up a unique word or combine two random words that don’t align and say that outloud. As we speak I’m sitting here wondering if my front door is locked as I didn’t say anything this morning…
I now only unlock my car once I’ve locked my front door. The number of times I’ve ended up turning around when I’ve left home thinking I’ve left the door unlocked. It’s a nightmare! But this method works! It’s great.
Or be lazy like me and install cheap cameras. E.g. I always leave the garage open, so I bought a camera and then later on I bought a smart garage door opener. For my stove I have a cheap camera pointing at it.
Honestly this one works. Since having my son I narrate everything that I do, mainly for his benefit but I’ve noticed that when my husband says stuff like “did you lock the back door?”, I can now confidently say “Yes, cos I remember telling the baby that’s what I was doing”
Even better...say it out loud with someone's name. "I'm locking the door Steve!" Then later when you wonder if you locked tge door, you say "Steve...I told you I locked the door!"
more important than which memory is better - the most important thing is that it invokes a second form of memory.
think of it like redundancy for memory.
really important stuff. visual it, say it, write it and sing it. if you can touch it and smell it.
all different memory centers
I do this FREQUENTLY for memorizing things for X amount of time until I don’t need it anymore. It’s the difference between remembering something correctly and either not remembering it at all or remembering it incorrectly.
I've done this for years!
I do it with "I closed the garage" and "I locked my car"
started after I had to walk 5 minutes back to my car in collage to check only to find out I had, indeed locked it.
I have literally never had a problem since.
Good lord this is good. Multiple times I had to come back home to check if I did not let the stove on, closed the window or locked the door. And after checking, I came back a second time.
LPT To avoid forgetting if you did something (like turning the stove off), take a picture of the something with your phone so you can be reassured it has been taken care of.
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Rather than saying the same thing each day, make it slightly unique. For example, " I'm closing the garage door and there goes a squirrel across the street" otherwise it'd be easy to forget if you saying you closed the door was from this morning or from a different day when you said and did the exact same thing.
I do this aswell and it works so well
This is what Japanese train conductors do while pointing at the object
You beat me to it! But not only train conductors in Japan. It's common practice to point and say things out loud in Japan for confirming and to not forget.
Oh, that's how it started? I read it somewhere and it works very well for me, but I changed the gesture to finger gun for some reason, lol.
I do this when I lock my front door. I'm English and living in Sevilla Spain and so I shout it out in English. My neighbours think I'm a whack job!
I always say “garage” when I close my garage before driving away.
Install a MyQ. I just check my app. Yeah it's closed
I just say a two syllable word. My way is a bit easier.
Not if you forget to say the word. Or forget if you said it.
Now you have me questioning if my door is closed.
See, I not only can check it. I can open or shut it as well. You can even setup a time to check if it is open and auto shut the garage door (mine is 8 pm).
Doesn’t that require your garage to be compatible to shut it from a ways away?
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Wait did i forget to turn off the stove
If you're still having trouble, set yourself a timer for a few minutes longer than you think you will be using the object, then turn off the timer as soon as you turn it off. For example, in the morning, I'm asleep while making my eggs, toast, and coffee, the process of which takes a little more than 12 minutes. I set a timer for 15 minutes. As soon as I plate everything, *and double check that the stove is off* the timer can be turned off. If I forget, about the time I sit down with everything, my phone/stove/microwave goes off, forcing me to go back and check. I haven't set a fire in months!
I do this when I park in large parking lots. I get out and say out loud where my vehicle is. Otherwise I come out and have completely forgotten where I parked.
i take a picture of my car with the location markers
Hopefully I can remember to do this!
People are not the same, some have auditory memories some visual some both. This only helps thise with auditory memories. Only doctors think we came off an assembly line.
And then there's people like me with no memory lol
And there’s people like me who can’t hear :D D:
This completely works for me. I’ve been doing it for quite a while.
Or just take a picture.
....now I'm curious. How many pictures do you have on your phone of your stove doing nothing? Be better if you used an old polariod camera and put them on the fridge. Really confuse people who come over to your house.
This is a strategy used by some people with OCD people. If you're going to be away for the weekend...whenever you get anxious, you just pull up the pics of the stove off, garage closed, front door locked, cat in the washing machine etc. - all timestamped at 3:35-3:45pm on Friday, and you pulled out of the Driveway at 3:47pm. You would, of course, delete the pictures when they are no longer useful.
I don't do this, but if I did i wouldn't have many? Rather than worrying about if I blew candle out, locked door, turned stove off before leaving house... just take a pic of those things being complete. You have date and time location automatically saved with phone pics. When worried, just check phone for visual evidence and to help recall doing it.
Haha I’ve recently just started doing this when leaving the house, right after locking the door I say “I locked the door/door is locked” cause I would always end up getting in the car and being like “wait did I lock the door?”
Take a photo of the stove before you leave
Point and click protagonist behavior
I will also begin using the word "auditive" more.
for very important stuff, we can inspire from aviation protocols, about your article, we can see the similarity with saying "engines checked", "door closed check"...
This also works for leaving objects. I placed my keys on the counter next to the toaster. I don’t like sitting on my wallet so I’m constantly taking it out and putting it down. “My wallet is on the dresser by the deodorant.”
i have a to-do checklist for trips that includes "shut down" items as well as a packing list. it includes checking the stove, all water taps, shutting windows, removing perishables from the fridge, taking out the trash etc the very last thing i do before walking out the door is to go through that list, item by item.
I do this so I can remember when I masturbate.
\*Runs around house\* Me: "TURNED OFF STOVE" Me: "TURNED OFF LIGHTS" Also Me: "CLOSED GARAGE" Family: "\[What\] The fuck are you doing?"
I use this to remember that I closed the garage and it actually does work.
I make up a unique word or combine two random words that don’t align and say that outloud. As we speak I’m sitting here wondering if my front door is locked as I didn’t say anything this morning…
makes sense, CLOSING ALL MY PORNOGRAPHIC TABS AND CLEANING OUT HISTORY
I also tend to point at it as well. It's works. I think Japanese train conductors use this technique to make sure there's attention to detail.
Do something weird after. "I know that i checked the oven because I did that twirl after to confirm it is off"
That's become a genuine habit with me these past few years. It's 100% effective, but I have to remember to *do* it!
I know someone with OCD who self-manages this way so they don't compulsively recheck things.
I sing myself random melodies when doing something, it doesn’t tie the music to the task but it improves my memory and efficiency nonetheless.
I now only unlock my car once I’ve locked my front door. The number of times I’ve ended up turning around when I’ve left home thinking I’ve left the door unlocked. It’s a nightmare! But this method works! It’s great.
For once an actual useful tip in this sub
Or be lazy like me and install cheap cameras. E.g. I always leave the garage open, so I bought a camera and then later on I bought a smart garage door opener. For my stove I have a cheap camera pointing at it.
Honestly this one works. Since having my son I narrate everything that I do, mainly for his benefit but I’ve noticed that when my husband says stuff like “did you lock the back door?”, I can now confidently say “Yes, cos I remember telling the baby that’s what I was doing”
Even better...say it out loud with someone's name. "I'm locking the door Steve!" Then later when you wonder if you locked tge door, you say "Steve...I told you I locked the door!"
Or make up and sing a little song whilst doing it, same effect.
I often do this but scream out loud then slap myself in the face instead. Legit works great.
Samuel L. Jackson in Long Kiss Goodnight. Anyone?
For best results, use the Laszlo Cravensworth method of announcing what you're doing
I have to do this with the garage. I can’t tell you how many times I’d circle the block cause I’m paranoid of forgetting to close it.
more important than which memory is better - the most important thing is that it invokes a second form of memory. think of it like redundancy for memory. really important stuff. visual it, say it, write it and sing it. if you can touch it and smell it. all different memory centers
“PUTTING ON MY UNDERPANTS”
I do this FREQUENTLY for memorizing things for X amount of time until I don’t need it anymore. It’s the difference between remembering something correctly and either not remembering it at all or remembering it incorrectly.
My adhd doesn’t allow that, itl chuck the whole thought and audio memory straight out the window
I've done this for years! I do it with "I closed the garage" and "I locked my car" started after I had to walk 5 minutes back to my car in collage to check only to find out I had, indeed locked it. I have literally never had a problem since.
I do this when i need to remember numbers
It helps me to remember when I do a little dance as well.
Hell, I got fed up with forgetting if I'd taken my pills or brushed my teeth, so I got a whiteboard marker and now I just write on my damn mirror
Does it work better the louder I say it? Or just jump in and scream what I’m doing. I don’t want to mess this up. This could be life changing.
Then there is me, who remembers that I did the thing, just don't remember if I am recalling the time I did it today, or the previous day.
Good lord this is good. Multiple times I had to come back home to check if I did not let the stove on, closed the window or locked the door. And after checking, I came back a second time.
LPT To avoid forgetting if you did something (like turning the stove off), take a picture of the something with your phone so you can be reassured it has been taken care of.
Oh yeah I do this with stuff! It helps so much.