As weird as it sounds, I don't try to remember things. I take notes when I don't want to have to rediscover something, but otherwise I let my brain remember what it wants to. It's more lazy than it is deliberate. One reason I think I might prefer to do this though is that I like to literally lose my mind when I'm into something and the fewer memories I'm maintaining the better.

Left to its own devices, my brain remembers the things I think about a lot: people, faces, feelings, code.