Very interesting.

I may take it to literal.

> When I need to remember to throw trash away, my wife or I put the bags right at the foot of the front door.

Not so obvious but difficult. As someone whose partner has severe ADHD, I can assure you that if the author wants to imply that no memory capacity is necessary to make this simple construct work, he is wrong in my opinion. It takes a “shallower” (?) form of memory to link something like this (you can definitely link it -- I do it similarly - I call it routine)

> To keep track of how many hours I've worked in a day, I move Lego bricks from one side of my computer's monitor to the other at every periodic break.

I think it's clearer in this case. The whole thing only works because you have memorized that the lego bricks on one side of the work table mean a certain thing.

In the end, it's a bit about rewiring your neurons because the original wiring didn't work well enough under real conditions.

when i want to make lasting changes in my life i now think about IF -> THEN triggers and "wire" them. Since I'm very principle driven (a bit on the spectrum) this makes it easy for me to maintain routines (but also problematic when I can't for $reasons).

I really liked the post and dont want to badmouth anything.

Once a week I take the trash (in a bag) and recycling (in a bin) from our kitchen out to the larger bins outside our garage, wheel the larger bins out to the street, and then go back inside. I had chronic issues forgetting to bring the recycling bin back inside, so I had the clever idea of putting the bin directly blocking my path back inside after I empty it into the larger outside bin.

This helps only slightly. I still regularly forget the bin on my way back inside as I automatically pick it up and move it to the side without thinking about what I’m moving or why I put it there.