There was another exchange on this point recently. In more detail, my preferred process is to hold off on writing things down for a bit to promote comprehension, then write them down within a few days to move on or have a better chance at partial reconstruction in the future. Not writing down at all makes forgetting to revisit in future or inability to sufficiently remember more likely. Writing down too quickly can turn an idea into a less useful caricature of itself, insufficiently familiar to settle into a natural formulation and no longer striving to do so once written down.
There was another exchange on this point recently. In more detail, my preferred process is to hold off on writing things down for a bit to promote comprehension, then write them down within a few days to move on or have a better chance at partial reconstruction in the future. Not writing down at all makes forgetting to revisit in future or inability to sufficiently remember more likely. Writing down too quickly can turn an idea into a less useful caricature of itself, insufficiently familiar to settle into a natural formulation and no longer striving to do so once written down.
I may be able to try different “incubation periods” for ideas, to see which write-down times work well for me...