I’ve been using a signpost mod for many years, along with a todo list. Especially valuable for complex mod plays like an angel and bobs run

I don’t. I’m a software developer in my day job and during that I need to keep my ADHD in check with task lists and tickets…

So whenever I play I pick up something that looks fun and roll with it… if I forgot some plans midstream then I just let them go and do something else.

I, specifically, never want a TODO list item that I’m not looking forward to to be hanging over my head - because then I’ll never pick up the save file again.

Last night my in game alarm went off for low power. I was about to fix it, so I muted it. But then I realized I was done for the night, so I turned it back on, saved, and exited.

So there is no way I forget what my next task is.

Most games don’t seem to let you name saves anymore, but I used to name my saves after whatever I expected to do next.

I’ve often thought that Factorio needs a comment block / sign post / notepad for just such a thing

I often leave my reminder on a post-it note on my monitor. Sometimes those get lost and then I have to depend on my own memory (dubious)

Recently I was in the middle of fixing up a facility that wasn’t working right when opposite sides of my base got hit hard by bugs. They broke through walls while I was travelling to repair the first attack, just a mess all around.

Anyway, I decided I didn’t want to deal with the cleanup right away because it was already getting late, so I left a sticky note. Then it took me a couple days to get back to the game and the note went missing. I remembered to clean up and shore up the defenses, but I forgot that the thing I had been working on before the attack wasn’t quite finished. Came back to it a week later to see why my resources weren’t getting shipped before I realized what happened.