What I've found is that I need to spend more time deciding what is important, and less time consuming frivolous information. That's hardly a technology problem.
For things I really don't want to forget, I'm using Anki [0], a Spaced Repetition System (SRS). Anki is supremely good at knowing when you're about to forget an item and prompting you to review it.
Spaced practice and retrieval practice, both of which are used in SRS, are two learning techniques for which there is ample evidence that they actually work [1].
You still need to decide what is worth remembering, but that's something technology can't help with, I think.
What I've found is that I need to spend more time deciding what is important, and less time consuming frivolous information. That's hardly a technology problem.
For things I really don't want to forget, I'm using Anki [0], a Spaced Repetition System (SRS). Anki is supremely good at knowing when you're about to forget an item and prompting you to review it.
Spaced practice and retrieval practice, both of which are used in SRS, are two learning techniques for which there is ample evidence that they actually work [1].
You still need to decide what is worth remembering, but that's something technology can't help with, I think.
[0] https://apps.ankiweb.net/
[1] https://www.learningscientists.org/