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Capturing thoughts

Quite often, I find myself doing something when other thoughts pop up that really need capturing.

Stopping whatever I'm doing to write this down / record it / whatever feels like I'm not being fully efficient doing what I was supposed to be doing in the first place. My mind tends to skip about quite a lot. Sometimes it simply isn't practical to stop what I'm doing to capture (or even carry capture tools), which leads to, 'will I remember this ?' anxiety.

Anyone been through similar & found a method that helps ?

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my captures

either a card in my shirt-pocket briefcase (in my back pocket), a phone call to jott (usually to have Sandy remember it), a few moments on my phone's voice recorder, or a notebook.

it's second nature to just write shit down when it pops into my head so i'm not preoccupied with a bunch of "stuff" throughout the day.

i hand it off and forget about it.

 
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