Your battery life is essentially based on the depth of discharge you allow the battery to go down to, and how many cycles of charge/discharge it goes through. For minimal discharge (say under 10% depth-of-discharge, you may be able to recharge-discharge-recharge-etc. Tens of thousands of times. If you discharge it almost all the way, that number drops to perhaps a few hundred to a few thousand times at most.
The drop is more than the 10-fold you'd expect from going 10% down to going near 100% down. Keeping the laptop plugged in as much as possible, and minimizing use while on battery power only is what will extend your battery life most. You could do as you propose, which will essentially be the same as keeping your laptop turned off, as far as your battery is concerned, but this is not necessary.
It also removes the battery from the circuit so to speak, which makes you computer more susceptible to surge-damage. Your best bet is thus to leave the battery in, and the wall-jack plugged in as much as possible.By the way, the "memory" problem people refer to that caused issues when you discharged a battery only a bit and then recharged it was true for NiMH batteries, but is not the case for Li-ion batteries.
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