I make lists on my android smart phone. I use the calendar app, and I have another app called colornote for grocery lists, things to do, stuff to remember, etc. Without these lists I'd be lost.
I have a password on my phone, and I also password the important things in colornote, like my lists of things to tell my pdoc, my doc, my meds, etc.
With colornote you can make check lists and check things off as they get done. Checking something off is a pretty good feeling. Even if you can't get it all done, you did get something done.
My memory is getting really bad, and I think it's because my mind races, and there's too much to think about.
And I lose pieces of paper. I write a phone number or directions or something down, and then a week later when I need it, the paper is gone, just gone. I live alone so I don't know where I could have put the paper. ???