What you said — writing it down to free your attention — is one of the main points from Getting Things Done. They have a good lists of mind sweep / brain-dump

What you said — writing it down to free your attention — is one of the main points from Getting Things Done. They have a good lists of mind sweep / brain-dump triggers [1] that I think benefit everyone even without ever doing everything one writes down. [1]: http://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mind_Sweep_Trigger_List.pdf http://gettingthingsdone.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Mind...