Maybe, maybe not. Lots of stuff gets put in "the back of my mind" because I'm not sure how to do it immediately. Maybe I'll think about it occasionally, or note

Maybe, maybe not. Lots of stuff gets put in "the back of my mind" because I'm not sure how to do it immediately. Maybe I'll think about it occasionally, or note a consequence like "oh this would be affected if I get around to X". Then when I actually sit down to do it weeks or months later it seams easy - even though when I first thought it I wasn't sure how to even do it. Point being- it's pretty unlikely that something bouncing around the back of someone's head for years would have taken 5 minutes to do right away, just as it's unlikely that it would have taken 6 years if they'd started when they first had the thought. I suspect there's been some amount of thinking, and potentially that other work was subtly influenced by this thought so that finally doing the task was "easy".