How do you catch a thought when typing isn’t an option (walking, driving, hands full)?
my notes are fine at a desk and useless everywhere else. someone says a date while i'm driving, or an idea shows up mid walk, and by the time i get to my phone it's turned into "call the thing about the stuff."
voice memos were supposed to solve this. what i got was like seventy clips named by date that i never opened again. recording was never the hard part. finding it after was.
what actually worked was giving up on catching it neatly. i dump it as one messy line, no cleanup. then five minutes at night where each line either becomes a task, gets a real name, or gets deleted. most get deleted. turns out that's fine.
for context i'm on the team building sparkring, so i think about this more than is healthy. still building, nothing in anyone's hands yet besides prototypes.
what do you do when your hands are busy? pocket notebook, voice memos you actually go back to, or have you just made peace with losing some of them?