Personal Productivity - I saw it, where is it?

If you put something in a drawer, do you remember it's there? If you're a visual learner, your head is nodding no.  Visual learners are fairly common.  Less common are the highly kinesthetic learners - they have to physically do something to remember.  I was reminded of this recently when working with a client who could not remember where we had put things in her office, despite the fact that she had been shown exactly where everything went.  The problem was that I had moved the items while she watched, and that was not enough physical participation for her to process the new locations.  

Here are some other ideas for kinesthetic learners:

• hand write your to-do and grocery lists
• do your own filing of anything you will have to retrieve
• pace while learning new material (the physical action does not have to be directly related to the material, the physical action itself will help the memory process).

What are techniques that have worked for you?  Share your comments.