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As Stephen King has said, and Edgar Allen Poe as well, in a different way, writing something down is the perfect way to make sure you keep bad ideas around. I’m
by jb1991 5y ago
As Stephen King has said, and Edgar Allen Poe as well, in a different way, writing something down is the perfect way to make sure you keep bad ideas around. I’m not against all notetaking, but I do believe that doing it by default does have some drawbacks.
- gherkinnn 5y agoIn that vein, writing something down helps empty my head. And the process of writing things down is like rubber-ducking, whereby I might soon find the idea to be bad and away it goes.
- psyc 5y agoI'm not entirely sure I get his meaning - which I take to be using your memory to filter for good ideas. Sounds like something a savant would say, not realizing they have an unusual brain. But I bet Stephen King types his novels, rather than dictating them to his editor from memory. Jay Z is said (by himself and numerous collaborators) not to write his lyrics down. He writes them in his head, and recites them from his head in the studio. I can't remember any ideas that originate in my head, that I haven't seen with my eyes. Except for those thrice-in-a-lifetime level ideas. I've tried the "if it's good I'll remember it" approach literally hundreds of times, and maybe retained three of those. I've had more than three good ideas in my life. I don't only want to remember the A+++ ones. I want the A++ ones, the A+ ones, and so on, so that I can work on refining them. Note taking apps are really handy for refining.