No but seriously though, backtracking in your mind helps. Close your eyes and rewind the tape, step by step, what did I do before right now, and before that, and before that, and before that. You won’t remember where you put it, because you didn’t register to memory where you put it in the first place, but you will know where you have been, and where you last had the thing.
It works better when you really visualize it before your mind’s eye rather than half assing it. Brain remembers a lot, but the mechanical task of mental retrieval is on you.
No but seriously though, backtracking in your mind helps. Close your eyes and rewind the tape, step by step, what did I do before right now, and before that, and before that, and before that. You won’t remember where you put it, because you didn’t register to memory where you put it in the first place, but you will know where you have been, and where you last had the thing.
It works better when you really visualize it before your mind’s eye rather than half assing it. Brain remembers a lot, but the mechanical task of mental retrieval is on you.