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Spontaneous Thinking
George Gottschalk | Mar 23 2008
Hello: I apologize if this has been covered before, but I couldn’t figure out what search terms I needed to use. After trying several I decided just to post. So David Allen repeatedly says that you need a system for capturing thoughts as they occur. “Your best thinking about work won’t occur while you’re at work.” However, I can’t figure out what system he recommends to capture those thoughts and put them into the larger system. Am I missing this, or what do the rest of you do? Do you keep a notebook handy and then go back and translate that into your system at the end of the day/week? Or what? Thanks! 3 Comments
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I think he’s suggestingSubmitted by Merlin Mann on March 23, 2008 - 7:31am.
I think he’s suggesting that you take notes through the day in whatever way is easiest for you, then toss them into a physical inbox to be processed on a daily basis or what have you. » POSTED IN:
Re: Spontaneous ThinkingSubmitted by mwr on March 23, 2008 - 6:16pm.
The technical term would be “ubiquitous capture tool”. Google it up for 1.5 million or so pages where different options are discussed, including this one from Zen Habits. » POSTED IN:
Re: Spontaneous ThinkingSubmitted by Berko on March 24, 2008 - 7:19pm.
I use a combination of paper notes (usually index cards) and Jott. I send pics of index cards and my Jott transcriptions into Backpack. From there, I clip reference material into Evernote. HTH. » POSTED IN:
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