best-practices

The documentation/specification/manual of that topic you’re struggling with provides the clarity you need. Save yourself the Google searches, articles, forum questions, trials and errors. RTFM is not a rude response. It is the gospel.

I think that admitting that your memory isn’t something out of the ordinary and that you will in a matter of a few days lose remembrance of the things you recently worked on can be a liberating first step in embracing the commonly evangelised engineering practices.