the point about salience is important, but people differ in the quality of their memory stephen king used to be anti notebook ('writer's notebook best way to i

the point about salience is important, but people differ in the quality of their memory stephen king used to be anti notebook ('writer's notebook best way to immortalize bad ideas'), then later in life was like 'oh my memory is no longer good, I write things down now' jk rowling (skilled in her craft if not public relations) has file cabinets full of organized creativity -- calendars for the days of the year, vast collections of ideas for names my sense is that most visual artists have sketches and prototypes (including da vinci), but this is 0% my area. I suppose you can argue that a sketch is 'the thing' and not notes for the thing