Any tips you use to remember the little (or big) things?

I have a small note book and pen beside the bed so if I suddenly think of something important I write it down. It’s no good thinking I will remember it in the morning because I won’t.

I also have one by my chair where I have my morning coffee.

I then put all my notes on my desk in my small office.

post-it notes on the tiles behind the kettle counter!
I wouldnt get anything done without them without them.

Only just seen this thread, but I have, not a list, but a huge notice on the door of the cupboard where I keep my tablets. It says LOCK THE DOORS! Since DH died I have occasionally forgotten to lock the doors at night and have been horrified to come down in the morning to find unlocked front and/or back doors. So now when I take my night-time tablet I check all the doors.

Shopping List Pad on worktop, small diary in bag, house diary in drawer under coffee table and calendar on kitchen wall. DH does everything on his phone and we have a diary check every week. Just before the New Year I write in all birthdays, Reminders about regular payments etc. Sounds a bit over the top but one year we realised that we hadn't renewed our house contents insurance the previous year and that really put the * up us. I can also still locate stuff in my diary, quicker than DH can on his phone.

And here's something about lists that I heard on a radio programme about sleep: if you have a lot of things to do or remember, it helps you sleep if you write a list of them before bedtime. Just making a mental list isn't enough; it's the actual writing down of the items that enables you to clear your head, because then you know you don't have to remember it all until the morning, and your brain can let go.

Lists in huge writing in the bathroom, we generally visit that more than once a day. If you have a downstairs lav. leave one there as well.

he even picked up a bit of Geordie too

Geordie with a French accent!! ?
My mind boggles.

What a great idea Patticake123 re smoke alarm I'll try this one.
For shopping I've made a list of the things I buy over the course of each month which is saved to the computer. Printed off several copies. Then check weekly to see whats needed, cross off whats not required.
Calender for appointments/bithdays.
Post it notes are stuck to kettle at night with reminders of things to do next day.
The only thing that gets confusing is feeding the dog ( shes worked out that if one of us feeds her she then waits for the other one to be in the kitchen on their own and then knocks the empty bowl round the kitchen and Hey Presto she gets fed again)

The mention of Lists reminds me of an ex colleague of my DH.

He's French and was contracted to the North East of England side of the "operation" for a couple of years. His English was excellent and he even picked up a bit of Geordie too.

After one particular meeting he very proudly announced that everyone should put together a "toe-doe" list. He never lived it down.

DS and DIL have a white board in their kitchen, wish I had done that when mine were small.
Now I write on a calendar and also add to computer calendar which brings up reminders until I dismiss them.
I write shopping lists but usually manage to forget items, mostly the items I really needed.

Moocow how about a white board/chalk board? I know you say you don't see lists but if it was a little bigger maybe?

Siri is a life saver for me

I have a diary/organiser called Life Book. If it’s not written in there, it doesn’t happen! I also have a birthday book which I consult a few times a year (written reminder in diary) I then buy cards for a few months ahead and make a note in the diary when to post them. I write down everywhere we are going, including my husband’s appointments as he is the opposite to me. Luckily I enjoy being organised, it’s the civil servant in me!

My dad was the same, lucky. It started in earnest after he had a brain op and he maintained they'd cut out his short-term memory as well as the problematic cyst. The umpty-ump volumes that my mum still has include everything from WTC (Weetabix, toast, coffee) for breakfast every day to all the bird species he'd seen that day in the garden or at various bird reserves and along the Fylde coast.

Very amusing Luckygirl but ditto. I often think if somebody snatched my bag I'd shout 'keep the cash but leave my diary'. Nuts, that's me!

My diary is my life - without it I do not exist.

Apart from anything else it allows me to find an answer if someone asks what I did yesterday!

A good new fashioned to do list on my iphone that I can set to bleep at me as and when.

A good old fashioned diary and then at the end of the year you can transfer anything necessary to a new one.

I always write shopping lists .
Other things like dental appointments, cats' re-vaccinations I write on the wall calendar in the kitchen. If they are in the first week of a month I write a reminder half-way through the previous month, so I don't finish up with a dental appointment and the cats' rabies vaccine at 10 a.m. on the same day!

Other things are done on the same date every year: the Christmas baking starts the day after my birthday, always has, always will.(my birthday is late in November)

Write notes in a diary for the months ahead. When I de-flea my cat I put a sticker on the calendar which comes with the product so I remember when I did her last.

Relieved its not just me who has to decorate their house with brightly coloured post its.

A number of lists. I have a book where I write a list with dates alongside when each task should be completed by - a sort of self nagging system.

There's also a list on the side of the fridge reminding us both of day to day items around the house and garden, so small repairs, that type of thing.

The fridge also holds a calendar where appointments are written, they are also in individual diaries. The poor old fridge also holds a magnetic shopping list, we both make additions when we think about it.

Not sure what I'd do without the fridge

I have a desk diary that I make a point of looking at every day when having my second breakfast 'cuppa'. There is so much to remember - flea treatments for the animals, birthdays, not to mention the appointments, and without it I would be completely at sea.

Notes next to the kettle, or if I need to take something with me when I go out I put my car keys next to it.

For shopping lists, there is a very useful phone app called Bring!, which enables you to make lists for different shops, and also allows different family members to add to them. My son introduced me to it a few months ago, and it really is very easy to use.