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How to stop forgetting how to do things you’ve done a dozen times

Ellsworth Toohey
Mar 03, 2026
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Ellane W needed to watermark some PDFs. She’d done it 10 to 20 times before. She could not remember how. Two years had passed since the last time, and the process had completely evaporated from her brain. So she built a system to make sure it wouldn’t happen again, and wrote up her method.

The fix is almost embarrassingly simpl…

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