Regularly organise them. Dump everything in to an inbox as it comes to you throughout the day and then have a set time to edit, curate, and label it properly.

Regularly organise them. Dump everything in to an inbox as it comes to you throughout the day and then have a set time to edit, curate, and label it properly. For to-do's which can vary in time sensitivity this might be straight away for some that need to be done that day, that day for some that need to be later that week, or weekly for those you hope to get done just eventually. For your links, ideas, and thoughts you could probably do it weekly. The trick is to not let it build up so much that when you get around to looking through it, you're looking at three full days worth of organising work, much of which you can't do anyway because you've long forgotten the context within which your short hand notes made sense. Specifically for to-do's, Getting Things Done is a very (the most?) popular organisational system with a book by the same name. Here is a much shorter summary of it: https://hamberg.no/gtd/ https://hamberg.no/gtd/