Long-ignored file #12345
I'm not an obsessive list-keeper, but I do like to have a safe place to put down the things I need-to-remember-to-remember. When I need brain space for the things I'm actually working on, I tend to open a fresh text file, dump my active memory into it, give it a hopefully descriptive name, and pretend I'll come back to look at it later. This is arguably a terrible idea, but I persist.
Here is the entire contents of read-when-awake.txt, which was created at 12:19 PM on 29 Oct 2007 (probably just before I took a nap?), modified the next day, and is now, inexplicably, living on my thumb drive.
BRING FOOD to Karoly seminar Nov 14th. WRITE THESIS. NOW. PHYTOESTROGENS. or maybe just GENESTEIN. For maryanne. DO PROBLEM SET. YESTERDAY. FIX CAR -Thermostat -Change Oil -Seat Belt -Rear Window
I'm fairly sure I did eventually do at least three of those things.