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Don't Let Good Ideas Get Away
The fundamental problem is that I don't know when I’m going to need a particular fact, quote, or idea again. So all of these strategies are aimed at either improving my memory to keep them top of mind, or creating an organizational strategy that makes sure I bump into them later when I need them.
Dan Shipper • GPT-4: A Copilot for the Mind
I’ll also use chunks as thought-starters for exploratory writing. In essence, I’m keeping an inventory of thoughts on my computer. I’m stockpiling ideas, stories, and prose
Mark Levy • Accidental Genius
By recording all of your ideas, two things happen. First, you’ll have a record of many ideas that you would likely have forgotten otherwise, and second, you’ll free up your mind to think of other things.
Schell • The Art of Game Design: A book of lenses
Write it down
"Most good material is forgotten. Write down the funniest or most interesting thing that happens to you each day. Most days will be boring, but if you write something each day, then you'll have 5 to 10 entertaining stories within a year or two. People are sitting on more funny stories than they realize because they do not have a habit
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. —David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organise Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
Information that is worth saving usually falls into two buckets:
- Administrative information: The daily minutiae of our lives (e.g., grocery lists, meeting notes, to-do lists)
- Creative information: Information that fuels our projects and ideas (e.g., that perfect quote for a presentation, the scientific study that inspires your next big essay, the
Sari Azout • The End of Productivity
Your mind is for having ideas, not holding them. —David Allen, author of Getting Things Done
Tiago Forte • Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential
good idea to have a page in your notebook where you jot down, as they come to you, ideas of topics to write about.