You are right with the notepad near the bed. Slight modification: I practice a certain kind of meditation. It has side effect that many things, including hack

You are right with the notepad near the bed. Slight modification: I practice a certain kind of meditation. It has side effect that many things, including hacking solutions, come to mind during a session. I use a notepad to quickly scratch one catch-phrase which will bring back whole idea later, and let that idea go which is the purpose of this particular meditation. Often I'm quite full of fresh ideas after such session. It's amazing and I'm very thankful to the teacher who gave me this method.