How Do I Capture Stuff?

Fleeting

• see,
  • quickly capture to let the idea go away,

In order to capture every single thing what has my attention, I need to have a system that allow me to capture everywhere, anywhere.

Here are the situations I generally am in when needing to capture and how I deal with them:

• When in front of my computer. I simply use org-mode,
• When using my phone
  • If it’s some thoughts,
    • If it’s long, I use sound/spy recorder. The audio note eventually gets synced with my computer, goes into my inbox and ends up manually transcripted org-mode when in front of a computer¹.
    • Otherwise, I use orgzly. The local note also eventually get synced with my computer, and integrated into my second brain,
  • For web quotes, I use hypothesis and use hypothesis.el to eventually get the content into org-mode.
• when only my brain is available², I put the thought in a mental palace that is eventually written in org-mode³.

Most of those rely on me having a daily inbox zero routine as part of my gtd process.

Everything ends in some org-mode document, where resides my second brain.

Notes linking here

• memory palace
• quickly capture to let the idea go away

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