Someone said "Brain is for ideas, not for storage". So I learned to not try to remember everything, but to compact them to indices (in a digital notebook - Orgm

Someone said "Brain is for ideas, not for storage". So I learned to not try to remember everything, but to compact them to indices (in a digital notebook - Orgmode in my case). When I need information, I simply search the index and refer back to the information. It works wonderfully.