I think, down the road, there comes a point where the place to capture ideas is no longer needed.
This is mostly speaking from personal experience, but I found that after years of capturing ideas like this I eventually just didn’t need to, because I realized I was generating hundreds or thousands of ideas a day and I didn’t do anything with most of them and having them written down was not a useful way to select amongst them, so instead it made sense to just let them come and go and not get stressed out if I didn’t capture something.
This suggests this sort of technique is useful for a while until it trains you so well that you can drop the capture tool.
Yes, you’ll still sometimes need to capture things, but the point is that you continue to carry around the brain that produced the ideas you thought worth capturing, and if you had them once and they’re worth doing something with you’ll have them again, so you can eventually ease up on the capture side. Of course, if you’re not babbling enough, you should do something like this to change that!
I tentatively agree with this for individual topics. Certainly as you get a big backlog of little ideas to work on, you should raise your threshold for idea capture, perhaps to the point where it doesn’t seem important to carry around the notebook.
However, there will often be other areas which you could usefully open up your brain to thinking about.
I think, down the road, there comes a point where the place to capture ideas is no longer needed.
This is mostly speaking from personal experience, but I found that after years of capturing ideas like this I eventually just didn’t need to, because I realized I was generating hundreds or thousands of ideas a day and I didn’t do anything with most of them and having them written down was not a useful way to select amongst them, so instead it made sense to just let them come and go and not get stressed out if I didn’t capture something.
This suggests this sort of technique is useful for a while until it trains you so well that you can drop the capture tool.
Yes, you’ll still sometimes need to capture things, but the point is that you continue to carry around the brain that produced the ideas you thought worth capturing, and if you had them once and they’re worth doing something with you’ll have them again, so you can eventually ease up on the capture side. Of course, if you’re not babbling enough, you should do something like this to change that!
I tentatively agree with this for individual topics. Certainly as you get a big backlog of little ideas to work on, you should raise your threshold for idea capture, perhaps to the point where it doesn’t seem important to carry around the notebook.
However, there will often be other areas which you could usefully open up your brain to thinking about.