"at a particular time" can be ameliorated with a good calendar, but "at a particular place" is still difficult.
Indeed, and other kinds of circumstance (next time I see a particular person, next time I'm scheduling a meeting, next time I write code that does a particular thing, next time I'm in the sort of general situation that I've just decided needs me to start list-making more proactively) are even harder. I have thought before that a GPS-based reminder system would be quite handy, but it wouldn't be the whole story even then – what I really need is a reminder system with read access to my thought processes, because it needs to respond to arbitrary semantic criteria on my current situation and the only thing that even works that out is my brain :-)
a separate TODO list for all the most common places
... the most obvious example of which is a shopping list, of course, which actually is the one list that I do carry everywhere with me.
what I really need is a reminder system with read access to my thought processes, because it needs to respond to arbitrary semantic criteria on my current situation and the only thing that even works that out is my brain
I agree that's what you really need, but it's also possible that maybe 90% of the time the problems can be fixed with something lesser, and then the amount to just remember may become actually manageable :)
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Indeed, and other kinds of circumstance (next time I see a particular person, next time I'm scheduling a meeting, next time I write code that does a particular thing, next time I'm in the sort of general situation that I've just decided needs me to start list-making more proactively) are even harder. I have thought before that a GPS-based reminder system would be quite handy, but it wouldn't be the whole story even then – what I really need is a reminder system with read access to my thought processes, because it needs to respond to arbitrary semantic criteria on my current situation and the only thing that even works that out is my brain :-)
a separate TODO list for all the most common places
... the most obvious example of which is a shopping list, of course, which actually is the one list that I do carry everywhere with me.
I agree that's what you really need, but it's also possible that maybe 90% of the time the problems can be fixed with something lesser, and then the amount to just remember may become actually manageable :)