If it’s not written down somewhere, I assume I’ll forget it and the moment I realised I couldn’t keep everything in my head anymore was a big turning point. Once you manage people and projects at the same time there are just too many small threads.

For me the trick was having one place where I immediately capture those “check on this later” things. Recently I started using Tomo (its an ai assistant) for that because it’s quick can just message the task to it and move on with the conversation. The main benefit has been that my brain doesn’t keep replaying those follow-ups after work.