We've been lucky enough to live in the same flat for more than fifteen years.
And one of the benefits of being in the same place for a long time is I finally know where the scissors are. They're where the scissors usually are. We've been here long enough for things to find a place and for the persistence of time and habit to return them to that place, more often than not. And the more often they're there the more likely they are to be there. It might not be the best place for them, but it's the place where they are.
I'm finding a similar thing happening on my phone. I use Things, for instance, as a To Do manager. I'm always trying new ones, many of them look very fine, but I seem to find Things under my thumb when I look down while To Do ing. And I'm To Do ing more and more. The tiniest thing crosses my mind and I thumb it into Things, things that I might be about to do right now, things I'm thinking about for when I get to the top of the stairs.
This pleases me. Partly because it makes me more likely do stuff, partly because it feels like an investment in a useful habit.
I feel like I'm getting more forgetful as I get older, I have no idea if I actually am, obviously, I can't be objective about it, but it's not impossible and it's certainly not going to decrease. Developing a well-worn To Do habit, in a trusted and well understood app feels like a useful hedge against increasing forgetfulness, a sort of ageing remedy, one that's digital rather than pharmaceutical, a behavioural equivalent of the scissors being where the scissors are.