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How did you manage remembering or recording ideas and inspiration such that you could recall them sufficiently when getting back to work?
by packetlost 3y ago
How did you manage remembering or recording ideas and inspiration such that you could recall them sufficiently when getting back to work?
- navane 3y agoFor me just jotting down four words in any notes app or email draft contains enough information to pick it back up later. I eventually settled on a shortcut on my phone's home screen that opened up an email to my work email. So all I had to do was press that shortcut, write the note and send it. Then come Monday I would have a couple notes from my self waiting in my inbox.
- JadeNB 3y agoI'm not the parent commenter, but no computer doesn't mean no access to writing implements, and writing something down physically can render it mentally ‘sticky’ in a way I've never been able to replicate in software.
- marginalia_nu 3y agoI just write it down somewhere. Usually the solution is much smaller than the problem, so a 1-2 line note and a sketch goes a long way. In general I make a habit of writing down anything I think I should do. It's easy to think you'll remember, but those types of thoughts are extremely fleeting, and you almost never remember then when it's time to get to work. Such note-taking is pretty much the backlog for my life and a principal key to getting a lot of shit done.
- grogenaut 3y agoI send myself a message on slack with a reminder usually
- hartator 3y agoMost of the ideas that came to me in similar times as OPs are like “actually we don’t need that new database at all, the data is already in the main db”-kind of ideas. So, notes are not really needed.
- endofreach 3y agoThis makes me wonder what problem this was a solution to