Yup. I'm often doing this with my wife when she cooks - trying to write it down so we can recreate it when something turns out great; and it often does and we

Yup. I'm often doing this with my wife when she cooks - trying to write it down so we can recreate it when something turns out great; and it often does and we haven't captured it. But I always remember the story I read about a guy whose side gig was inventing a colored solution for kids to use blowing huge bubbles (harder than you think - it's got to be colored enough to see, but become transparent and nonstaining or their moms will instantly kill the product). Several years in, he found a perfect solution - then discovered the next day he hadn't written it down and couldn't recreaate it. It took him several more years to find one that worked and successfully bring it to market. So, sure, maybe most of what goes in the notebooks is cruft, but the process is key. And the author DOES have an excellent point that the search & discovery capabilities of your system are key.