I try to make routines so I don't need to remember doing the mundane.
On my car key fob the bottom button unlocks the car so I remember "bottoms up." Too many times I would get a half block from the car and wonder if I locked it. I always walked back.
My key pops out of the fob when I push a red button like a switchblade. My routine is to lock the car and then push the key in the fob.
So if I'm a half a block away from the car and I touch my pocket and feel the key is out, not folded back in the fob I know I forgot to lock the car and head back. That almost never happens anymore now that I have a routine.
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