What people actually need is a diary. I can easily go through a day's worth of work and not remember what I did for that day, what I wanted to do nor what I was thinking about. TODOs is a weird middle ground where you put some effort but it doesn't have enough return to make the effort worthwhile. If you actually write a diary and jot down your thoughts, dreams, wishes etc you can actually relive it and rediscover things.

I started doing this and it feels incredible when you start reading back what you did the past week and rediscover all the victories, thoughts that you had throughout the week.