The way I’ve come around to digital tools is that I consider them a different, externalised type of memory augmentation. They give us another type of memory.

If someone interrupts me and asks me to do something that I can’t attend to right then, there’s two options (assuming I want to do the thing):

- Hold it in my working memory until I’m able to fully context switch or put mental effort into transferring it into long-term memory

- Immediately note it down, then make no further effort to remember it

The same applies for random ideas that might pop into my head that are unrelated to the task at hand.