As the middle generation of a 5 generation family though I can tell you that trying to keep up with aging parents, grandparents, kids, grandkid and my own activities (work, volunteer, tractor) pretty much required coming up with a system to avoid missing stuff. Mine, at the moment, has several components.
1-- (I actually used for a while in high school) is a whiteboard in the kitchen that I put everything that someone here at home needs to know about what/when/where. Helps me remember as well as making sure spouse and kids at home know of. Started this in high school when my parents were working night shift and as the oldest I was handling "taxi" duties for siblings. If it didn't/doesn't make it on the wall... someone isn't getting somewhere.
2 -- All the other stuff goes in a monthly planner/calendar I keep on my desk and check each morning. This is separate from the calendar at work that keeps only work related/impacting events (so Dr. appts end up two or more calendars).
Writing stuff down seems to help two ways... one it re-enforces your minds retention of it and two it's reduces your reliance on your mind.
I haven't gone to a newer , fancier phone yet. Some of this may get easier if I do as there are some nice calendaring/to-do list features on some of them so that may be an option to think about too.
Hang in there... find a system that works for helping track some of what's going on. And as others have said... keep looking into the literature on the meds just realize as far as the memory and overload of when/where/what there are limits of what you're mind will do even without being on meds (and it changes as we age).
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