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There's no way to avoid aging, but you can certainly overcome some of the resulting issues.

One of the major problems is forgetting. It seems that in the past you were able to have a whole bunch of ideas, a large number of ideas in your head and you would remember them and handle all of them.

At a later stage it was important to make to do files and possibly to prioritize them in order to get things done. These files got printed out as lists and you would check off the things that needed to be done or else they would remain on the computer and you would check them off there.

At a certain point those to do lists broke down either because they got to be too long, since you couldn't handle everything that you wanted to every day, or else because you kept forgetting things that you wanted to put on those lists. That's where the next stage comes in. You can carry around little cube pages in your pocket and take notes whenever you want to remember things. This is useful also for remembering those elusive terms with translation and also for editing and the other option is a one or more small portable recorders. You can get tape recorders very cheaply as well as mp3 players that will record what you say, and you can get digital recorders that will be more expensive, but the quality is much better.

In these cases it will be necessary to transcribe the notes that you put on to the recorder. Here is the tradeoff:

It's very easy to carry around these recorders and to record ideas as they occur to you, whether you're on the road or walking or in your home, any place this is the way to do it. It's a much better system than written notes.

However, the fact that it has to be transcribed could be a problem. You may have to hire somebody to transcribe the notes for you or you may have to do it yourself and it's boring and time consuming to transcribe your own notes.

However, we are now talking about issues of expense and not issues anymore of being able to remember things. You will remember everything if you record it as it occurs to you immediately so you can compensate for your aging.

This is the way of overcoming the problem. Now the question is how to overcome its cost.

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