Agree that different things work for different people. And even different things work for the same person at different time.
I, too, operate using the "nothing" approach as my DEFAULT and most common mode.
In my mind, the big things I never forget to attend to (they are big). The small things that I might forget, who cares, they're less important and the forgetting is a natural prioritization mechanism.
Some times I do feel overwhelmed by how many "big things" I have to juggle but won't "remember" or "it takes too much cognitive load to track". In that case, I make an ephemeral list on paper. That helps me adjust my perspective (sometimes things that I worried about are now clearly in the not urgent or not importang bucket).
I, too, operate using the "nothing" approach as my DEFAULT and most common mode.
In my mind, the big things I never forget to attend to (they are big). The small things that I might forget, who cares, they're less important and the forgetting is a natural prioritization mechanism.
Some times I do feel overwhelmed by how many "big things" I have to juggle but won't "remember" or "it takes too much cognitive load to track". In that case, I make an ephemeral list on paper. That helps me adjust my perspective (sometimes things that I worried about are now clearly in the not urgent or not importang bucket).