article_snippet: A Chinese man who has been left with a memory that lasts just five minutes has found the only way Chen Hongzhi can cope is to continually write down every detail of Chen Hongzhi life in a precious notebook.
article_snippet: Chen Hongzhi writes down everything - from the people Chen Hongzhi meets in the street to the weather - as Chen Hongzhi injury means Chen Hongzhi has to start from scratch each day.
article_snippet: Chen Hongzhi uses the notebook to write down people Chen Hongzhi meets and what Chen Hongzhi does each day after being left with a five-minute memory following a car crash .
article_snippet: While Chen Hongzhi body recovered, Chen Hongzhi memory loss is still so severe that Chen Hongzhi often forgets things that happened between five and 10 minutes ago.
article_snippet: The debilitating condition also means that Chen Hongzhi cannot remember how to write properly, so Chen Hongzhi makes notes in a phonetic 'scrawl' that mostly only Chen Hongzhi understands. '
article_snippet: This is my record, I write in This everyday, even if This is pouring down with rain or if I don't go out to do the weeding I still l must write, "Heavy rain",' Chen Hongzhi said. '
article_snippet: Life record: Chen Hongzhi writes down everything from the people Chen Hongzhi meets in the street to the weather as Chen Hongzhi injury means Chen Hongzhi has to start from scratch each day.
article_snippet: She hands Chen Hongzhi his notebook so Chen Hongzhi can read what has happened in Chen Hongzhi life since the accident and check important details like who Chen Hongzhi friends are and what needs to be done that day.
article_snippet: Chen Hongzhi, 25, has had to write everything down after Chen Hongzhi suffered brain injuries that left Chen Hongzhi with a five-minute memory, when Chen Hongzhi was 17 .
article_snippet: Chen Hongzhi, 25 get by on donations from neighbours and friends in the tiny village in northern Taiwan's Hsinchu County, who have given Chen Hongzhi the nickname 'short memory man' because Chen Hongzhi forgets having met Chen Hongzhi, 25 within 24 hours.
highlights_snippet: Reads notebook to recall who Chen Hongzhi is and who Chen Hongzhi friends are .
  
highlights_snippet: Records everything Chen Hongzhi