When you set up TOTP on a new account, copy the TOTP seed to paper then and there, resist the "I'll do this later".
Corollary (likely unpopular I'd hazard) - hardware token implementations that I can't back up to paper don't exist as far as I'm concerned.
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When you set up TOTP on a new account, copy the TOTP seed to paper then and there, resist the "I'll do this later".