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treat your phone's camera like the photographic memory you wish you had if you're prone to losing things take a photo of your dry cleaning ticket or coat check ticket because those paper slips are always disappearing photograph your kid before big outing so you have a good image of what he's wearing that day and if your friends forget to give you back your stuff and grab a pic of them holding that item to jog your memory take a picture of the inside of your fridge before you go grocery shopping or a picture of landmarks around where you parked your car even your hotel if you're in a new city and when you're packing up to move photograph the contents of each box before you leave on that big trip snap photos of key documents like your passport credit cards and your kids birth certificates also prescription pill bottles including the barcodes for easy refills just make sure you have a passcode to protect your phone also look up directions and take screenshots of key routes that way you have map directions stored in your camera roll even if you don't have access to Wi-Fi in San Francisco I'm Kara Tsuboi cnet.com for CBS News