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Spontaneous Thinking

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!

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Re: Spontaneous Thinking

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.

 
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