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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us.

We're able to access more information in a moment than our predecessors could in a lifetime.

And mostly that's convenient and great.

But we all have so much to keep track of. It's just impossible to remember at all.

Today, we're going to work on solving that problem with the help of our guest, Tiago Forte.

When Tiago was in his 20s, he developed chronic pain.

He tried everything to treat it. But the medications, they had a crappy side effect.

They caused severe short-term memory loss, like for real.

I took a vacation, a two-week vacation to Russia with my friend Allison.

And a couple months later, I said, oh, I would really love to visit Russia one day.

And she was like, Tiago, we just went to Russia. We just went there.

And I was like, I had to look at photos because I was like, oh my gosh, that's right.

Thus Tiago learned something early that many of us have figured out over lots of time.

I think what I took away from that is I can't rely on my brain.

Out of necessity, Tiago developed an easy system to keep track of everything,

from his vacations to his to-do list to the notes from an important meeting.

He eventually got better. But that note-taking system?

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