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Howdy, ~keystone, welcome to The Midnight, its patrons and creatures!
~bartender? Just coffee with cream and sugar, please. Thank you so much!
The memory thing is described in detail in "Thinking fast and slow" by Daniel Kahneman. It took me several weeks to read, but I can highly recommend it. And yes, I can only recommend journaling, i.e. writing up a few paragraphs of what happened, what you thought or planned, every day. Just yesterday I came across a file, which detailed many of the steps I had taken to solve a technical problem. I had forgotten most of them. And I gazed in awe, how much time that actually involved. I had spend an enormous amount of time on this --- sadly without a solution. And just recently I picked up a tip from an entirely different context, which might explain the root cause of this unsolved problem. But heck, it was not important then and lesser so today. :-)
On journalling, I have come across another gem. Apparently Richard Feynman, the physicist, insisted, that "the thinking takes place on paper". If you cannot write it down, it might as well not exist. And I have come to appreciate this in my work life. I keep a detailed log, with commands and versions and stuff. It has got my back covered many times. It has grown > 10 MiB in 7 years, and it starts to show emacs's limits :-)
Cheers!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thinking_fast_and_slow
gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210120-re-starting-my-journal.gmi
gemini://ew.srht.site/en/2021/20210807-re-think-in-writing.gmi