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A comment on Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / reminders to yourself?.

Re:Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / remind... by noahdesu on Sunday October 29, 2017 @12:07PM (#15579809)
This is what I've been doing for a while, with good results. Step one: get it out of my head. Short reminder sentence in e-mail to myself, or google keep, napkin whatever. Step two: get it out of my head. Periodically (same day, same week) I triage these notes into a single continuously growing brain dump google doc, or a dedicated google doc per subject in a folder if its warranted.

Before I often stressed when I couldn't recall something I knew was important or had been a cool idea. Now I still don't have time to explore 90% of the things I think about, but I don't stress about it.

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Re:Ask HN: How do you take idea notes / voice memos / remind... by patrics123 on Tuesday October 31, 2017 @04:23AM (#15591716)
Great advice! I think thats the main reason I want to use a reliable tool in my process: to be able to get it out of my head without thinking: this is going to be lost ;)
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