Yes there are many ways for the brain to remember.

1) Reading
2) Writing
3) Thinking back on things.
4) Listening to music while doing task makes it so played music is paired with memory.
5) Eating food while doing task makes it so eaten food is paired with memory.
6) Smelling something while doing task makes smell paired with memory.
7) Feeling something such as emotions makes emotion paired with memory.

The list literally goes on and all of these have been proven. When an action or event is paired with a memory. Resimulating the event can cause the recollection of the given memory that the action or event was paired with.