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@sinbad I still run into situations where I google for how to do something and find myself on twitter or the ogre forum telling people how to do it, but I have no memory of ever knowing the answer.
So I don't just forget how things I made work, I forget I even did them.

But I can remember student code from weeks ago, better than the students themselves. :)

@sinbad I'm a bit of the same. I tend to think that my brain mostly stores an index, not the information itself.

Like, I know X is possible, and that's enough. I usually have an idea of where to find it, often my own code in some forgotten repository, or some refresher reference.

But the concrete solution itself? I don't need that space anymore, so I evict it. Knowing it exists elsewhere is enough.

@sinbad same here. I take some solace in the idea that even though you can't remember the particulars, the general lessons should still stick. You can't remember every meal you've had or every book you've read either. And they still made you you.

@sinbad I do the same - as soon as I'm done with a project I've basically forgotten everything about it. Sometimes I'll even quote on new additions to something and then when I jump back in to build what I'd quoted for, it turns out I already had

My memory also tricks me though, and I sometimes think an old project worked more cleverly than it does. I'll be convinced I can reuse some code from it, spend hours looking for where I put that code, and eventually realise that's not what I built!